I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.
3rd party apps for browsing
the real reason we’re all here
The only things it DOESN’T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it’s very easy to abuse).
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.
there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy
is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?
astroturing implies they get paid.
You don’t find it a bit ironic to be calling out people criticizing capitalism for making people miserable as “smug” while being incredibly smug?
I wonder if there are safe guards to stop a bot army from impacting the discourse, or if it’s just because it’s a less known platform.
I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.
Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.
there isnt. but no one cares about this place to infect it
That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately
I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.
7 things, tap to expand
- Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
- Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
- Filtering out/organising porn, seperwting it from SFW content (Reddit tricks you into seeing porn all the time but lemmy holds it on seperate instances.)
- less addictive design
- comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
- honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
- Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.
I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji …
You need to put two spaces at the end of a line to get a proper line break
It’s an odd quirk of markdown.Or you can press enter twice like I did here if you don’t mind the extra space.
I actually had everything formatted correctly. Following your comment I did try and add more gaps to make the whole thing more readable/pleasant for people, but nothing changed in its appearance. Sorry if it’s hard to read
Gender bending Linux stuff.
Definitely gets the not being a raging transphobic cesspool over reddit.
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
Superiority complex.
The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
Crossposting from another fediware. Can’t do that outside the fediverse, of course.higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.
obviously it’s still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I’m just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.
Absolutely the truth for most Fediverse platforms. It takes cognitive effort to join and get started.
Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It’s not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day’s hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay…). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh
this comment is poetry.
lemmy does totally lack the vibrant niche communities. i loved the circlejerk communites especially ragging on the stupid stuff in hobby subs, but that can’t be here because the mainstream hobby communities have zero users or activity.
In my experience, Lemmy users tend to be more mature and less argumentative. You’ll find plenty of exceptions, though.
you sound like someone who blocked lemmy.ml
Perhaps my instance did (I don’t remember), but I haven’t personally.
Yeah well I think u r wrong. Fite me.
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Allowing me to post
Also fewer incels.
Still plenty of misogyny around unfortunately tho
i never saw incels on reddit. what subs did you go to?
r/incels
They like the women only subs
