Jerboa app is amazing

No one on the platform side is incentivized (or capable) of controlling things, which is nice.

Modlog, able to insert multiple picture/gif in comment without having to use the app, able to talk with people from another platform(like Kbin or mastodon, though limited), no ads, no tracker, animated profile picture, able to turn off downvote, no arbitrary shadowban(or no shadowban), plethora of apps to choose from without forced to use the clunky reddit official app.

It's been a long time i didn't touch reddit so that's what i can remember.

Star Trek memes. I didn’t even come here for them, but they’re everywhere, like the Picard manoeuvre.

• You can choose an instance that gives you like-minded people and an intentional community (like feddit.de for a German instance, or programming.dev for all things development and programming related, or ani.social for anime communities, or beehaw.org for a more vetted signup and member approach for a more social and healthy userbase)
• Lemmy is federated meaning despite this separation into instances users can read and participate in communities and posts of other instances
• Instances can choose to not federate or to block other instances according to their choices (another reason to choose your instance according to your intentions and expectations or usage pattern)
• You can link posts, add text to the post, and edit post titles after posting

Those are probably the most obvious and usage facing differences. Additionally:

• Lemmy is a platform of free and open source software, open to customizations and collaboration
• Lemmy instances are run by groups and individuals, it's open to people and groups joining with their own instances
• As such, both in software source and platform, Lemmy is a community project whereas Reddit is a private company (soon a public company owned by shareholders)
• Lemmy has an open API allowing for custom client, bot, and other integrations
• Lemmy uses the open ActivityPub protocol, so it can interact with many other platforms like Mastodon, KBin, etc

In many other ways, it is similar to Reddit. Like having upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy is still young, so it will improve in terms of functionality and annoyances.

I mean, posting a video just works.

As of 2023, Reddit still didn't have fully functional video.

I particularly like how the Threadiverse dev's and server hosts don't count our posts and the work of mods as their value.

Preventing power tripping mods

Beans and jeans!

I find higher meaningful engagement and much less toxic culture here.

It takes time to cultivate your community list here, just like it took time to build my followed subreddits back when I first started with Reddit, but I get posts that I care about and am interested in in my “Subscribed” list. I’ll admit that not every one of my interests are represented, but I’m still happy here.

after lemmy i would definitely check out the products that can explore more of the fediverse, like mbin. it cant interoperate with lemmy and allows intercommunication with the 'microblog' side of the fediverse, which lemmy is incapable. https://moist.catsweat.com