Well the apps and interface is better for sure.
I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.
We enjoy you too buddy.
Gosh that warmed my heart way more than it should! Maybe that’s why I love Lemmy!
I try to sprinkle a bit of love where I can, here and there. Makes the place feel more like home. 💓
It’s calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.
Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.
No they cant! So anyways, did you do anything cool this weekend?
Just house work buddy. Moving sucks.
I hear ya. Bet you found some cool stuff you forgot about though.
I did. I didn’t know that some builders used joists and wall studs instead of ducts for hvac. Can’t say i like it though.
I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.
Right? What’s with all the obvious data gathering posts with huge upvotes like: “What was your favorite commercial as a kid?”, or “What’s that one thing you keep secret?” Really? It might as well be a day old account with 30 karma posting: “Please post a list of your favorite passwords alphabetically if you’re cool”.
No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts
Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
It’s all open, we can participate in its development.
Most of all: it’s run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.
I’ve been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.
I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.
I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
My instance doesn’t sell what I write to train AI.
Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn’t give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.
Eh, if they run their own ActivityPub server they can probably extract everything in a neat format.
Yeah but they have to set it up. It’s not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn’t get to make any money off my back.
Nobody needs your instance to sell anything. The AI companies can access the data for free, just like the rest of us do through the web.
Some instances like solarpunk sit behind anubis which makes each request from scrapers cost exponentially more than usual. Its not much but at least people on lemmy have the mind to try and strike back, on reddit they take it laying down.
and other instances that federate with solarpunk have almost the same data and are easier to scrape
I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don’t really count nor have an effect on my account
Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations
No ads and no corporate censorship.
I don’t yet– found my way here after getting banned.
Welcome :)
It’s small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
