Reddit might still have more content, but it’s been overwhelmed by noise. Lemmy might have less, but I don’t have to sift to find it.

The userbase. I don’t care much for anything else on your list, I think things as they are aren’t perfect but I’m ok with it as is. Reddit is the same or worse. But the userbase is different. Less trolls, more tech savvy people, more FOSS. Overall better answers, except on certain niche areas.

Also it’s less invasive visually and mentally. Reddit is riddled with ads and links to other posts very much like YouTube has suggested videos on the side. I don’t need this information overload. Annoying. I used to be able to control it using Boost for reddit but hey, guess what.

And if I really need to go to Reddit, I do. Nothing stops me from lurking if I want. Occasionally I use it, I think over the last 2 years I’ve posted like five times on Reddit.

I like being able to choose what I want when I want it.

I think your premise is flawed tbh and lemmy is still beta. Every lemmy server has the potential to be its own community. I don’t actually care much about the federation, vegantheoryclub.org is its own thing with its own users we’re small but we have a matrix chat and a discord too. With the new version we’re probably going to turn off the votes. Hexbear existed longer as a stand alone site than it did with federation and has one of the most active communities. So really big picture is that lemmy is the software that can bring back the distributed forums of all and federation is just a side benefit.

Who cares about mods and mod powers, seriously. If you don’t like a community, launch your own server and pay it forward you can run it however you want and attract your own users.

No ads and no extortion of third party apps is a big plus

mods are abusing their powers

Seems like most of the mod actions taken about you are about off topic posts: https://sopuli.xyz/modlog?userId=16440635

LW

How so?

VPN and tor

Some instances do, and you can choose to use them instead. That’s the main pro of federation.

Federation is kinda of not that perfect right now

What issues do you face?

Users privacy

It’s a public forum, so privacy has a limit. However, you can delete your account and posts. Also, Lemmy apps have much less permissions than the Reddit one.

Lemmy has flaws, but Reddit is a fucking cesspool.

There’s not going to be a replacement for what Reddit used to be. The world is shittier now, that’s just gone. The right way to think of it is that the replacement for Reddit is a combination of Lemmy (or another preferred option) and being less online, being less attached to any one site.

It’s not a corporate owned shithole. There are several other reasons, but that alone should be sufficient.

Lenmy offers me the freedom to get mad at many different people running instances and not just one godforsaken company running roughshod over everything communities had created over years.

I’m not mad at anyone though because I don’t share your views at all. I’m a happy Lemmy user.

And what is Lemmy dot world acting like at night?

Reddit admins started getting quite a bit more fashy banning people for even just upvoting certain stuff. I got caught up in that and hit with a bullshit temp ban, then before it got lifted on appeal I got hit with a total bullshit perma ban. It was also lifted on appeal, but by that point I was fed up and went looking for alternatives. I still use reddit a tiny bit, mostly posting questions on subs there when there isn’t a community here or there is but it has like 12 members and hasn’t seen a post in 3 months or whatever.

The content is completely different. Here it feels more thought out.

I am quite new here, I didn’t have reddit, I come from fb. I choose Lemmy because it is not own by a fucking schizophrenic billionarie (I mean shittenberg, I don’t know who owns reddit, but it is USA and, not to offend anyone, but I am very fed of USA in general) and this for me is enough. I think the issue with our data is mainly what companies do with it (of course the privacy principle itself too matters), and the issue with centralization is that here I am free to say to an admin or a mod to go fuck himself, if I ever feel doing so. And change my instance. This is something unimaginable in the classic socials. You pointed out a list of reasons but actually didn’t elaborate any of them, and I am curious. Please elaborate.

I used to be on .world also but left partially because of the points you’ve made and switching to .ml has been MUCH better for me.

I’ve been moving from one social media platform to another, since the time of icq & bbs, every time it enshitifies and it’s clear that happens once it becomes centralized enough and w significant financial backing.

.world and .ee are the closest things to that, that exists on the lemmyverse and I hope that they don’t go down the same path.

There’s good content to be found on Reddit, but most of Reddit is not good content. It’s like wading through a chest-high river of sewage to smell a rose.

And Lemmy’s not trying to sell me something every 30 seconds.

I think you make GREAT points. I came here from Reddit, realized that it’s becoming reddit, but not as popular.

Now I am on reddit as much as I am on here. And way more productive information on Reddit since it’s so much better.

I just don’t see Lemmy growing very much, because it’s become a smaller Reddit. Especially .world. That instance is fucking toxic and full of tattletale babies that will legit follow you around if you disagree with them. lol