I like being able to edit titles!
No “total karma” for accounts.
Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.
And karma farming shitposts
How dare you say that! My mother was a saint
<j> ikr, those people are actual zombies. </j> i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.
This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
Seeing downvotes as soon as there’s at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.
Reddit used to have that with a browser add on called Reddit Enhancement Suite. They cut off access to the downvote numbers a while ago. I’ve missed it ever since.
Downvotes were shown by default without RES. They removed it but RES dev made it possible somehow.
Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.
YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.
Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.
I’m doing my part
The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.
Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.
When account migration gets added and something like community sync is in place, I can see that issue being mitigated. Sure, there might be some chaos, but the underlying nature of the fediverse makes the issue much less likely to occur.
Are those planned features? Just joined today.
This^. And not just the ads, but the decentralized nature should also protect the community at large. Where as if Nintendo doesn’t like something on r/Nintendo they may have sufficient pull to force a change. With communities being decentralized it means that corporations have a lessened ability to throw their weight around.
This was a big thing for me too. And I agree about the UI, it feels close to reddit I guess but I’ve not had any issues finding my way around and joining a bunch of communities that interest me. I’ve also commented/posted more than I ever did on reddit already!
Unicode characters in display names.
Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive
No karma
Feels more intimate. It’s actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I’m kind of addicted already 😬 it’s a plus that we have a chance to see what it becomes. That’s the best part imo. I been here only a few hrs, but I feel apart of something. Reddit is a bit disconnected sometimes, especially on larger subs.
Alot of reddit posts ended up being just really dumb nothing posts, but here it seems like the more engaged type crowd for now.
I like the small community feel, as well. What’s nice about that is that Lemmy doesn’t have to get big to be what it needs to be (but bigger is still nice).
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage
That you’re not walking on eggshells.
My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.
So hopefully we won’t get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.
We will. But it’s gonna be contained to instances and communities there and opening a new community on another instance is easy af
I think the thing is that even if we do (and we will), you can always just move to another community discussing the same thing.
I see all the people wanting “meta-communities” so that they can subscribe to the one thing, but it really seems nice to have a range of small communities covering the same topic. Less chance of your favourite thing being gatekept by a random powertrip.
It feels way more community focused. There’s a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.
When you sort by “New” it kinda refreshes in realtime.
I was literally trying to figure out how to disable that.
The smaller community.
I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes… Today you can’t interact anymore, just “consume”.
This is a great point! Reddit today feels like forum Instagram
