Lemmy didn’t try to force me to dox myself for “age verification”.

Smaller user base means discussions move a bit slower.

Better blocking and other tools for sorting content and users.

No ads.

Far, far fewer petty mods and admins. There will never be zero, but it is much better here overall.

Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.

I’m not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi

better discussions, no ads, better mobile experience

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)

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.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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.

Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.

In real life, I prefer to live in a big town.

Online, I prefer to live in a small town.

Because I hear Spez say “Stick it in deeper every single time I 🪵 in.”

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.

liked seeing tech stuff like linux and selfhosting, dont really see it anymore, starting to use it less and less

People are slightly less stupid, which makes conversation not as frustrating. I also don’t get banned/suspended because a mod got uppity (and even if it happened, the solutions are easier!). I mean, it happened on .ml but I had to get at least one ban, lol.