For me this is the closest reddit alternative i know of. Sure lemmy isint as big as reddit and reddit has far more tech issues, But im new here so i cant really say much.
Do you prefer lemmy or reddit? are there any other social media i should try? please briefly explain your thoughts and ideals.
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Lemmy is almost perfect, we just need more users here. a new alternative is piefed, greatest point is that you can combine sublemmys from different instances into communities.
Be careful what you wish for. Some might consider “more users” to mean a huge influx of assholes and normies.
Or maybe more friends idk.
No. Reddit was better in almost every possible way with just few exeptions. I’m simply too principled to go back and I see Lemmy as the only viable alternative.
Totally agreed, I haven’t touched reddit in years but the diversity of people and options is what made Reddit so fun. After using Lemmy for a few years I can’t imagine it ever getting to where Reddit was.
Lemmy feels sometimes almost like the old internet, with all the random niche communities and interesting people. I dont want to even remember reddit exists.
same and I wish there were a few more people.
I liked what Reddit used to be, but I refuse to support the platform now.
I like what Fedi stands for, but it can’t - and might never - replace all the small niche subs I used Reddit for. But I’m still here to try and push for a platform that no CEO can enshittify.
For now, Reddit. Not because its good, but because Lemmy still doesn’t have enough users to fufill its use case unless you want to talk about politics or IT-type tech. Hopefully, that will change in the future. Once a few of the semi-niche communities like Dota 2, painting, cats, or city-based communities takes off, I can hopefully stop going back to Reddit.
Lemmy and the Fediverse have a stronger foundation, but without a userbase, its kinda pointless.
2 years on Lemmy now since API made me realize Reddit was going full enshittification and censorship. Lemmy has grown a lot and my mobile client, Boost(which came over from a Reddit client), makes it so enjoyable it makes up for many things.
I dearly miss r/NBA and r/Wallstreetbets users for being able to make me laugh so much but maybe with time Lemmy will grow there.
Reddit died for me when they killed the API. I hear it’s only gotten worse.
Lemmy by a mile. Questions asked here return helpful and helpfully funny responses. Reddit brings out the moronic hoards. That said, I use libreddit to browse some subs that aren’t as big here. But only briefly and I always shower afterwards.
I agree 100%. If I want help with something, people are generally kind and helpful on Lemmy. The worst that typically happens is no one responds.
On Reddit, asking for help in a sub specifically created for these requests usually results in being downvoted heavily. I might get a response or even a few, but it’s not uncommon to also get mocked and trolled unless my request is unusually interesting.
I recall being in a tough spot in a previous relationship and asking for advice. I got some helpful advice but it also resulted in one user mocking me and encouraging suicide and another user attempting to dox me.
Lemmy by a light year. I feel that I’m actually talking to real people here, and there’s no algorithm, no tracking, no corpo influence.
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The main things reddit has going for it is more people, and better SEO.
Privately owned for profit orgs are extremely vulnerable to enshittification.
The threadiverse tech is better (Lemmy/Piefed/MBin etc) and it is a great feeling to know I’m not getting tracked and profiled by big tech or inundated by ads, or force fed ragebait via an algorithm I neither want nor need. The users are better, mostly, although I have noticed an uptick over the last 3 or 4 months of reddit-style dickheads being dickheads - but I can just block them.
Niche content will come I think. If the threadiverse can resist the self-defeating drive to ‘grow at all costs’ and just let it organically grow, more people will come but a lot more slowly. But of course that will bring a change in the user culture too. Its quite nice being somewhere with low to no tolerance for right-wing shit.
As for Reddit, I don’t have an account any more. My main of almost Digg migration antiquity was deleted when Spez shit the bed over the API thing but I’d been on Lemmy prior to that anyway off an on. My alt got deleted about 6 months ago when I realised I hadn’t used it for months. If I absolutely have to visit a sub I use a front end.
I am literally unable to use reddit, so…
They are hellbent on permabanning all their users and using advanced fingerprinting to prevent them from ever using reddit again.
Lemmy. Don’t have a Reddit account, let Reddit die
Reddit has more content but hates VPN users
