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Everybody is pointing at things that Lemmy is worse than Reddit. What in Lemmy is BETTER than Reddit? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by RomanRoy to c/asklemmy

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Ignore 'smaller userbase' if you prefer it that way. We're talking about it as a platform, in its UI, functionalities, etc.

I go first: You can post images in the text body with a simple Ctrl+V. No need to upload it somewhere or even save to your device.

So, in your opinion, in what Lemmy is better than Reddit already?

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[–] RomanRoy 25 points 1 year ago

I also go second:

POSSIBILITY TO EDIT POST TITLES, MOTHERFUCKERS

[–] calhoon2005 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a start, doesn't seem to want to charge stupid amounts for API access.

[–] RomanRoy 6 points 1 year ago

Definitely a plus.

[–] jndo 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Browsing for new content and communities is so much better here. Like, incredibly so. I don't know if it's just the lack of repost and karma bots or what but the quality of content is so much higher.

[–] Ghostalmedia 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And advice on good communities?

[–] jndo 2 points 1 year ago

I'm mainly just scrolling through the "all" section and using various tabs like active, new etc if it gets repetitive. That's how I found this thread.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I came here for the mobile apps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lack of advertisements. Last time I used the official Reddit app it showed an advertisement every 5 posts or so. And of course no way to disable it. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve got be honest. I’ve never seen an ad on reddit. Because first Narwhal, then Apollo. That’s why I’m here now. And I love it.

[+] tst123 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] Lonnie123 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I personally like the decentralization aspect of it.

This is kind of its biggest strength and its biggest weakness. I'm just now learning the ropes, but I'm probably in the upper 10% of the population for tech literacy and even I was scratching my head about "instances" vs "communities" ... And there is lemmy.world and lemmy.one and lemmy.ml and lemmy.inifity and it looked like I needed a separate account on all of them initially but now maybe it looks like I dont? And do they share communities or is there a tech "sublemmy" on all of them and I should subscribe to all of them?? I think I've figured out how to subscribe to multiple instances communities on a single account... But this is asking ALOT more than 90% of the population is going to do.

Kind of like if there was reddit1.com, reddit2.com, reddit3.com, etc... And they all had similar communities but not really and you needed an account on all of them, etc...

Im still not 100% sure, but as a "go to the website and browse" type experience reddit is still the reigning champ, and I dont see anything lemmy can do to "fix" the issue of fractured communities and website because it doesnt consider that a bug but a feature.

[–] KermitLeFrog 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I work in computer science and one of my bandmates works in cybersecurity, so both of us are at least top 1% computer literacy if not higher. And we were just talking earlier today about how ridiculous the barrier of entry is to using this site. I'm pretty much only here because I'm fucking insane and no barrier of entry is too high to stop me from climbing over AND it was easier for me to figure out anyway due to me being naturally inclined to this kind of thing.

[–] spirals 4 points 1 year ago

Idk I am not smart and only took 1 year of computer science but I caught on pretty quickly. The instances vs community thing was easy to comprehend. The only thing that confused me was how Mastodon, lemmy, and kbin interact. I thought I needed a separate account for kbin but turns out I don't, for the most part at least. I'm not interested in Twitter so I haven't looked into Mastodon, but it's probably the same.

[–] linearchaos 3 points 1 year ago

I honestly don't think it's as bad as everyone's making it out. It's different, and that's the whole of the problem. It's not a monolithic replacement for Reddit. It can totally replace Reddit, but it's not Reddit 2.0.

You join and small or medium sized server and search for the communities you want. If you pop onto a node what's a decent number of people and don't see a lot of shady shit happening, You're probably in a good place to settle down.

Reddit is like going to Walmart. You want car tires, a pack of frozen burritos, a pair of socks you just run around to the store and buy whatever you want, but you're also at the mercy of what they want to sell you.

Lemmy It's like running around to a bunch of small to medium sized convenience stores, If one place doesn't treat you right there are hundreds or thousands of others that have no such hangups.

Going from Lemmy server to Lemmy server needs to be a little more transparent, and group subscription to similar communities across different servers needs to be a thing.

I've had no problems discovering communities off server. In a few cases I've joined like communities on more than one server subscribe to them and I just get all the posts.

In the end, I think all the small communities will get gobbled up by the larger ones.

My favorite part of Lemmy is that no one person or even groups of people can ruin things for everyone. If you don't like how things are you can go to another place where you do or you can make your own place.

[–] Lonnie123 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kind of like the auto updating feed/comments section, although it does do it quite fast.

[–] fubo 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A rapidly growing user base and all the thrills & chills thereof.

[–] KermitLeFrog 2 points 1 year ago

This is definitely the most excited I've felt basically in the entire time I've used the internet. Probably the thing that comes the closest is back when I worked as a shoutcaster and had random people sending me clips and screenshots from streams on discord and twitter. But that was also a really different experience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Privacy bigtime

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Third party apps 😊

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No ads.

[–] dystop 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ignoring the users and the userbase - the main thing is the ability to edit your post title.

I also really like the public mod log. I've seen so many questionable mod decisions over my 11 years at reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We're not there yet, but: stability. Once the development is reaching a stable release, even a few big servers shutting down will have no cascading effects on the rest of the network. It will just be some communities that are gone and that's it. This also means no outside manipulation, no single attack vector for the network. The truth is, the best things about it will be the things that we won't see anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: whoops I read the question backwards

Embedded media and media hosting in general.

I’m not sure what our solution is for this. A good CDN is tough to make. It’s one of the few things I’m pretty sure are better off being centralized.

[–] joneskind 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it's definitely the fact that it's not own by a single person. We've seen what kind of damage some narcissistic twats can do to our beloved platforms.

Projects like Mastodon and Lemmy are reliable for everyone, from developers to users.

It's open source, so it is possible to add features if you can think of a service that could be useful to everyone. Being a developer myself I'm excited about those opportunities.

It's moderated by the instance owner, so in a sense it is also the best free speech experience since you could always find far-right to far-left leaning instances.

There sure are some improvements to make, features to add etc. but it's already awesome.

Finally, did you ever try to open Reddit on a Raspberry Pi? Lemmy's code is so light, it could probably run on a last millenium's potato.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm finding the signal to noise ratio is higher here. Much higher quality content at the moment. I even see some bots that post the entire article rather than just linking it. I hope that catches on.

[–] the_observer95 3 points 1 year ago

The website is not as heavy as new.reddit.com.