No ads and the ability to filter to only unread posts (at least on Memmy.)
No changes will ever be forced-in to appease "the boss".
Less stuff, less time waste/addiction
Censorship
You thought Reddit mods had a stick up their asses? Lemmy ones have a fucking log instead.
You thought Reddit mods had a stick up their asses? Lemmy ones have a fucking modlog instead.
Fixed that for you!
I'm half-joking. Being completely serious now, I don't think that censorship here is worse than in Reddit, just more visible due to features like the mod log, and lack of features like the automoderator (it's harder to detect if you've been silenced if it happens automatically, based on keywords).
Doesn't have a single owner. It's a free software, build around a free-protocol. If at a moment, some developpers do not agree with Lemmy's main-dev, they're absolutely free to create a Memmy platform based on lemmy with their feature enabled. Just like at a point Libre office split from open office. Even better, Kbin/Mbin runs a fully different code-base and is still (fully) compatible with Lemmy. It's the magic of free software.
With instance I know, you don't give a commercial licence to re-use your content like you do on reddit. For example, Lemmy.world team cannot sell your comments to train an AI, or re-use the photo you post te sell T-shirt. On reddit (but also meta, tik tok and others) they'll do.
Have you noticed that you don't find these big GDPR cookies/tracker consent form ? Well, when you don't sell your user data to ads company, and don't put tons of trackers, GDPR compliance isn't complicated. Look at your instance privacy policy for LW it's there and compare it with reddit term of use it's crazy what we accept on reddit.
That said, please note that privacy friendly instances run because some people pay for it, if you like it, and can afford-it feel free to make a donation to your instances or the main developper.
At the moment it's a relatively small community, and you'll see the same nick-names everywhere, which means that in general the communities are nice and well behaved. There is a couple of instances which want to put politics everywhere and are annoying, but it's the exception not the norm.
Federation and fediverse works. From Lemmy, I've interacted with persons on Mastodon, have seen some of my Lemmy comments being retooted in Mastodon, have seen Mastodon/Firefish user posting on lemmy from their account there. And of course, you can exchange with people using lemmy on different instance.
If you're the tankie type, you might appreciate how tankie-heavy it is.
I feel like that trope doesn't really ring true these days, as most of the "general purpose" instances are pretty moderate. Back when Lemmy was still just a small handful of instances, that was definitely the case, but I think the wider adoption has balanced things out a bit closer toward center, overall.
There's no spez.
Fuck spez.
I haven't been banned yet?
I can be a bit abrasive when I'm annoyed. And I think lethal force can be a legitimate answer to some (few) problems. Reddit didn't like that.
If the goal is just better, then moderation is better. Reddit obviously has better/more content, users, etc. But the mods can and do make the whole experience. It could be zero interaction, no problem, or it could be a permanent ban of a subr or the whole ecosystem for no reason and you have zero insight or recourse.
On Lemmy the same can happen and I'm convinced many mods here are just are bad. But there is a public log. You still can't do anything about it, but it's something.
Which comes back to the real question. Both suck. The best thing about Lemmy is that I went from using reddit as my only social media for years, to boycotting it and coming here. And it sucks here, so now very little social media presence at all. It works great as a digital detox.
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