Personally, because I’m not banned for whatever reason a mod made up that day.
It’s smaller for sure, but I’m sure it’ll grow. I think once there’s enough content here you’ll see it as a just a different Reddit.
It’s still pretty easy to get banned on Lemmy. It’s still just human mods.
It's pretty hard to get banned on all instances of Lemmy. Particularly, your own.
Others have already nailed some of the best reasons so I'll just say Welcome.
If you only look on the surface- it really isn’t. Hive-mind mentality, power tripping mods….
It’s essentially the same thing but with a far-left theme.
Now… under the hood? Entirely different.
No spez. The rest is kinda similar (except on a technical level that mostly matters to nerds)
Mass down voting was not the reason I left Reddit. Was it why you left? If so then, we'll, sure, maybe it's not better for you lol. Lemmy doesn't track your total points (or "karma" as some call it) which most people seem to appreciate.
It tells you when there are new comments on a post u already saw. Getting down voted and whatnot is a reflection on the ppl doing it not the system they're using
It's the same format with the same people. The only difference is that Lemmy is decentralized. Besides, it isn't monetized at the moment, so there are no ads or other nuisances.
When you think about it, every sarcastic comment you make on Reddit now makes Google better. Reddit is too corporate, but who wouldn't want to spread seriously good information on Reddit, to be picked up by the google machine? People need to know about the benefits of eating a little piece of rock a day.
Honestly, it looks like Lemmy sadly became more and more similar to Reddit in that regard. I remember times when it was different and people were way more civil.
That's not to say all good people are gone, and if you move away from politics and Linux, there's a treasure trove of nice and welcoming people in here.
In any way, welcome!
You can use a client that doesn't offend your eyes.
less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose.
Depends on where you landed and your political alignment, but lemmy.world is fairly reasonable at least by what I'm looking for. If you start saying radical things like "Mao's Great Leap Forward" wasn't a very good thing on certain instances, you may be banned from there, but with your account residing here, it wont be deleted.
Reddit cannot be browsed on mobile because they blocked 3rd party apps.
It's not reddit, that's good enough
I've been avoiding the political BS and finding it much better. Easier to avoid the vitriolic stuff here too. And you can turn off seeing comment and post scores so downvotes don't exist for me.
I haven't seen nearly as many obvious rage bait bot posts either.
In terms of how it's structured, it has the potential to be better, but also the potential to be not much better. in terms of the community and getting downvoted for petty reasons - it's the same as Reddit. Welcome to Lemmy!
Federation, this makes it immune to large-scale disruptions because a single instance may go down or a couple of instances may go down at the same time, but the entire network cannot be taken offline all at once without taking the internet itself offline.
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