Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.

I get to see answer this question every month.

No karma means being able to post in any sub without having to have 100+ karma.

Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)

On Lemmy I only follow news and informative stuff, and on here there's an emphasis on the things I'm already interested in (FOSS, Privacy, etc.)

I've never really since I didn't have any reason to, although I regularly use it as a knowledge base since Lemmy cannot compete on that regard.

I like the idea of the fediverse so I thought I'd come here.

Also surveilance capitalism sucks ass.

Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.

It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.

I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.

Digg

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.

It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.

Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.

I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.

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.

No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts

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.

Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.

Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations

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.

No ads and no corporate censorship.

I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account

I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.

lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.

Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.

Spiritually. A sense of freedom.

I don't yet, but it's getting closer.

One reason is on me. I should choose a different instance because mine is the other side of the world from me! Different vibe. I probably haven't moved because I enjoy experiencing local views which oppose and align with my own. Conversely, In the community context, I follow "fuck_ai" and some of the pro-AI communities because it's important to me to see both sides of this revolution develop.

The second is that quite a few of the Reddit communities have limited Lemmy presence with significant momentum. That will hopefully change with time and other platforms willing.

On the flip side, I've found that there are many communities which have momentum which I joined on Lemmy for fun that I haven't investigated as to whether they exist in Reddit. My interests are eclectic and transient sometimes. Perhaps my sense of wonder will wilt one day (that alliteration sounded better in my head; damn!).

Website format is much nicer. I like that you can post links knowing you wont get deranked or blackholed by a random mod. Modlog is also a nice feature.

I enjoy not having corporate censorship deciding what I can and can't see or say; not that I comment or post that much.