Lemmy doesn’t give a shit if I’m on VPN, which means I can still access it when working from home.
Lemmy as a platform doesn’t care. But Lemmy as a community certainly does: You should absolutely be on a VPN in this day and age.
I’m not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi
Reddit has a stupid karma system where you have to be liked enough just to comment. It defeats the point of having mods. At least here, if the mods are justified or not, you just get banned. There’s no beating around the bush, middle-man type of popularity contest.
Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.
An actually solid mobile client
I’m allowed to comment without first being required to farm an unknown amount of karma.
It’s not corporate controlled, and due to federation, it will never succumb to enshittification.
(Individual servers might, but you can always move to another one without any real loss of functionality)
Every way.
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People are nicer here. For the most part.
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There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.
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Because Reddit banned me for posting “If you have the opportunity, you should always punch a Nazi”.
No wonder. As you can see, there’s a lot less use of that ‘O-word’ over here.
Opportunity?
Yes, well… I’m kinda rural, and it’s not everyday I see people outside of my little town. None of us are Nazis, so opportunities don’t come along everyday.
liked seeing tech stuff like linux and selfhosting, dont really see it anymore, starting to use it less and less
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I like how easy it is to block people, communities, and instances. It makes it so I can curate my feed into something that’s interesting and doesn’t make me want to constantly ragepost. It’s better for my mental health.
No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.
Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
Yeah, not missing reddit. Missing some of the peeps, tho.
It’s one of those things I don’t notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).
At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they’re everywhere.
I downvote every one . Even the ones with a puppy dog or cat.
That might be worse than not engaging at all 🤷♂️
I hate the adds…and the bots
They serve no purpose for which I have a need.
It really makes you wonder about the type of people that see an ad and say to themselves " I’m going to look into that ".
I see an advertisement and the first thing that pops in my mind is “ok, I’ll stay away from that for sure, i definitelydont want that in my life”
I was checking my weather app, and they fed me an ad for something that I didn’t even know what it was, so I went to the website, clicked around a bunch, just so they thought I was interested. All Praise be to VPN! Sometimes reinforcing a mis-impression is the best thing one can do.
I’m currently browsing Lemmy with a third party app.
Reddit wiped out that capacity, and I in turn wiped out my participation on reddit.
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