What are some of the "small things" you appreciate about Lemmy over Reddit?

3 years ago by RoosterBoy to c/asklemmy

I like being able to edit titles!

AnonStoleMyPants 59 points 3 years ago

No "total karma" for accounts.

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RoosterBoy 37 points 3 years ago

Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.

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krolden 8 points 3 years ago

And karma farming shitposts

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Wit 2 points 3 years ago

ikr, those people are actual zombies. i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.

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scrubbles 2 points 3 years ago

How dare you say that! My mother was a saint

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Jomn 13 points 3 years ago

This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.

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derek 43 points 3 years ago

No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.

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ILikeMultis 36 points 3 years ago

Relatively tech literate user base

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concrete_baby 7 points 3 years ago

Not for long if the migration continues

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oryx 30 points 3 years ago

Seeing downvotes as soon as there's at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.

Edit: I appreciate the downvote to display this awesome feature 👍

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other_world 16 points 3 years ago

Reddit used to have that with a browser add on called Reddit Enhancement Suite. They cut off access to the downvote numbers a while ago. I've missed it ever since.

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ILikeMultis 10 points 3 years ago

Downvotes were shown by default without RES. They removed it but RES dev made it possible somehow.

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SurpriseWaterfall 7 points 3 years ago

Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.

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RoosterBoy 5 points 3 years ago

YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.

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bdonvr 6 points 3 years ago

Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.

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ComradeMiao 2 points 3 years ago

I’m doing my part

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SH0GUN 27 points 3 years ago

I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage

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lalay721 22 points 3 years ago

The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.

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Wit 4 points 3 years ago

Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.

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MentallyExhausted 7 points 3 years ago

When account migration gets added and something like community sync is in place, I can see that issue being mitigated. Sure, there might be some chaos, but the underlying nature of the fediverse makes the issue much less likely to occur.

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atimholt 1 point 3 years ago

Are those planned features? Just joined today.

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Grenfur 3 points 3 years ago

This^. And not just the ads, but the decentralized nature should also protect the community at large. Where as if Nintendo doesn't like something on r/Nintendo they may have sufficient pull to force a change. With communities being decentralized it means that corporations have a lessened ability to throw their weight around.

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Speckle 2 points 3 years ago

This was a big thing for me too. And I agree about the UI, it feels close to reddit I guess but I've not had any issues finding my way around and joining a bunch of communities that interest me. I've also commented/posted more than I ever did on reddit already!

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MiddleWeigh 22 points 3 years ago

Feels more intimate. It's actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I'm kind of addicted already 😬 it's a plus that we have a chance to see what it becomes. That's the best part imo. I been here only a few hrs, but I feel apart of something. Reddit is a bit disconnected sometimes, especially on larger subs.

Alot of reddit posts ended up being just really dumb nothing posts, but here it seems like the more engaged type crowd for now.

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atimholt 7 points 3 years ago

I like the small community feel, as well. What's nice about that is that Lemmy doesn't have to get big to be what it needs to be (but bigger is still nice).

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BrewJajaja 21 points 3 years ago

That you're not walking on eggshells.

My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.

So hopefully we won't get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.

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iso 5 points 3 years ago

We will. But it's gonna be contained to instances and communities there and opening a new community on another instance is easy af

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krolden 18 points 3 years ago

No karma

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Silviecat44 16 points 3 years ago

Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.

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iso 16 points 3 years ago

Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive

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_number8_ 16 points 3 years ago

i love being able to see individual upvote and downvote counts. the nuance is actually very important

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lodion 16 points 3 years ago

Unicode characters in display names.

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Darkenmal 15 points 3 years ago

It feels way more community focused. There's a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.

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_number8_ 3 points 3 years ago

dreading the day when i see lemmy billboards

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Sabakodgo 14 points 3 years ago

Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.

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twistedtxb 13 points 3 years ago

When you sort by "New" it kinda refreshes in realtime.

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notun 3 points 3 years ago

I was literally trying to figure out how to disable that.

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positiveWHAT 2 points 3 years ago

This also happens in the comments which is cool! Tho I can foresee it becoming rather annoying in high activity places.

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spaduf 13 points 3 years ago

Way fewer bots. I don't think I realized how bad reddit was.

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Z3DT 7 points 3 years ago

Man I'm not looking forward to when the bots find Lemmy.

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sup 13 points 3 years ago

Ooooh we can edit titles?

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TheGayDude 12 points 3 years ago

Better UI

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Valmond 12 points 3 years ago

The smaller community.

I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes... Today you can't interact anymore, just "consume".

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ComradeMiao 4 points 3 years ago

This is a great point! Reddit today feels like forum Instagram

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Che_Donkey 12 points 3 years ago

Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response

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Ultra980 10 points 3 years ago

The friendly community

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JustSomeGuy 9 points 3 years ago

I'm happy I won't have to deal with seeing subreddits named _____porn, like DesignPorn. So immature and cringe

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jlh 7 points 3 years ago

There are a ton of them, actually. There's like 10 on lemmy.ml if you search "porn" on https://browse.feddit.de/

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JustSomeGuy 3 points 3 years ago

That's unfortunate, I was hoping it wouldn't be a thing. Oh well, it's not a big deal

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jlh 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah, the diversity means that there's bound to be content you dont like. Simple enough to just block the community though, and then they wont show up for you anymore.

There's a big red block button in the sidebar on desktop, and then you can also manage your blocks in your settings page.

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IcyPractice 8 points 3 years ago

Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc

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PCChipsM922U 11 points 3 years ago

Why that was the best part for me 😂. Will get on it to make Lemmy feel more like home 🏃.

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IcyPractice 4 points 3 years ago

No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.

To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.

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sleepyTonia 5 points 3 years ago

At least in the "fediverse" it's possible to maintain a much cleaner separation between those communities. Like, the server I'm on has this very explicit programming focus (Can't believe this domain name is a thing 😂) and I'm sure there's a server out there for horny peeps who just want to look at porn. Both can have drastically different rules in regards to posting, commenting and such and if a server's admin pulls the plug for one reason or another, the rest of the "network" stays up. 🤷‍♀️

Would just be nice if there was a way to backup, sync or migrate accounts between federated servers. I expect things will fluctuate quite a bit as many of us take refuge in various servers. Especially if reddit moderation bots get crippled, third party apps die and old.reddit gets the boot, flooding lemmy/kbin servers with more users than some can handle, financially-speaking.

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PCChipsM922U 2 points 3 years ago

I was joking for the most part. What I meant was NSFW content. Like nothing too much like porn, like r/upvotebecauseboobs or r/hornyjail, stuff like that. I mean, I like tech news and being serious, but I also like to see something just whacked from time to time... or some boobies 😂. What can I say, I'm married 🤷 😂.

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denemdenem 2 points 3 years ago

God I miss r/ihavesex.

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_number8_ 8 points 3 years ago

so far at least there are no constant annoying automod filters like 'this title needs to be 250 characters not including spaces, have a [i'm a dumbass] flair, etc etc'

it does nothing to improve the quality of anything and makes the whole UX more annoying. on r/gonewildaudio there's like a paragraph of flairs

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Nerandza 5 points 3 years ago

The app emoji is cool. I think on Jerboa app, this mouse is so sweet

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Z3DT 1 point 3 years ago

It's a Jerboa, which is an actual animal!

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Nerandza 2 points 3 years ago

Oh, wow, didn't know that, thanks Btw super sweet animal!

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smegforbrains 5 points 3 years ago

Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat 🤩 https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham

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Raphael 4 points 3 years ago

You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.

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catastrophicblues 3 points 3 years ago

I actually really like that the community is smaller. It feels like an actual community and not a hoard of strangers.

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ram 2 points 3 years ago

When I click a post it actually opens a new page for the post instead of some weird window overlaying the feed. Things are simplified and easier to use and understand. I don't feel like I'm constantly trying to work around the platform.

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Ultra980 2 points 3 years ago

This post is kinda related

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mo_lave 2 points 3 years ago

The "small" community relative to reddit.

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hoodlem 2 points 3 years ago

More engagement. I think the vast majority of Reddit was lurkers. This feels more like a community.

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Boozilla 1 point 3 years ago

Lemmy doesn't seem to have the "hive mind" that reddit has. So much shit on reddit is performative and predictable.

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tebro 1 point 3 years ago

I was concerned of the amount of users not being enough to generate content, but so far I have been proven wrong. And the quality of the content is much better. At least for now.

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fubo 1 point 3 years ago

One nice UI feature is that there's a "view source" button when viewing comments and posts, which lets you see exactly what markup the poster used.

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bazongo -6 points 3 years ago

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RoosterBoy 17 points 3 years ago

My guy the Reddit admins actively try to lie about and gaslight the community, even after evidence is publically stacked against them, Reddit is far from "alright".

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Atemu 2 points 3 years ago

Reddit.com is more than just the people running it.

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notun 1 point 3 years ago

It's not gaslighting, just regular old lying.

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RoosterBoy 1 point 3 years ago

"No, that phone call that was publicly released is wrong, Apollo dev is the devil"

Sounds like gaslighting to me.

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notun 1 point 3 years ago

Sounds like you don't understand the concept.

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tubbadu 1 point 3 years ago

"banned because of spam" go brrr

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bazongo -8 points 3 years ago

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lalay721 7 points 3 years ago

The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".

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bazongo 1 point 3 years ago

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RoosterBoy 7 points 3 years ago

With that attitude it won't be.

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RagingNerdoholic 5 points 3 years ago

There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.

Lemmy is the closest thing I've found so far in terms of a similar structure and UX, and while it's still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.

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RagingNerdoholic 2 points 3 years ago

You're in for a disappointment

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