Was originally thinking of posting Lenmy content on Reddit to less directly advertise Lemmy, but in the communities I follow, its almost exclusively content or already posted to, or directly originating from Reddit. This got me wondering if there were any niches that Lemmy serves better than other, larger platforms.
Cue the obama giving himself a medal meme but the comments are much more intelligent and there’s a much better conversation to be had
More peace of mind.
When I log into Lemmy and see a bunch of messages in my inbox I don’t have a moment of panic wondering if the replies are gonna be because the hive mind found my comment/post to be the best or the worst.
Replies here are reasonable if not too earnest…
Agreed. While there are a few ranty, hostile, irrational replies here, they are much fewer and farther between than on reddit. Not to mention the raiding and mod witch-hunts here are much milder. That shit got insane on reddit back in the day (I don’t know what it’s like now, since I abandoned reddit about 18 months ago).
I like that on Lemmy there are more human-like posts and no advertisements. Hated scrolling through Reddit ads then getting sneaky ad-like posts from ‘people.’
Beep Boop, Am Human.
Hello, fellow human!
I hope your day has been full of the various human things, such as eating, and sleeping. Certainly I have been enjoying those things; as a human, I get plenty of sleep and food and other human things.
Non mainstream opinions. Anything outside the extremely small overton window on Reddit is immediately hidden, deleted or downvoted. Lemmy has far more diverse opinions, and I also believe that it leads to more interesting discussion. I enjoy being in the same room with people who don’t share all my opinions. I find it more interesting and engaging.
If you really like socialism this is the place to be
Linux content
That is more of a con than a pro
I feel you, man. Like, I appreciate what Linux is for, but the Linux content here is extremely blind to the average user’s use-case. It makes it hard to take suggestions and input seriously.
Marxists?
Trash political takes, communism, anarchism. That’s it mostly
For me, it’s not about having good content that is not on reddit, but avoiding all kinds of bad content that is on reddit. I can scroll through the “top of the day” list of my subscriptions in a relatively short time and find many posts that I enjoy or that interest me. When I used reddit, there was always so much noise, ragebait, clickbait, sometimes interesting questions with only bland answers, etc.
Star trek memes
Trek memes
Definitely the Internet’s superior source ofl Star Trek memes.
Communism and open source software. Queer spaces are also much nicer
wait do we have a FALGSC community yet
I think one of the few things Lemmy is better at is that I can go into 8hr old thread with 120 replies and write a comment and then have people actually read that comment too and react to it.
With 99% of AskReddit threads for example, posting a reply was complete waste of time unless you were among the first ones in. Almost all of the top comments were always also among the first comments.
The flashlight community is lit
One that is nothing but positive: you can edit post titles and use limited markdown in them.
One that’s done as much good as it’s done harm: polycentric moderation. One instance can’t enforce its own community rules on others. It protects lemmy.blahaj.zone from bigots, but it’s also why Lemmygrad exists.
