We all have that one feature, the thing that makes you never want to go back to Reddit. Curious to hear what yours is.
Decentralisation.
I will never use any other kind of social media again.
I’ve been putting off using lemmy because I didn’t really understand how it all worked. Finally made an account last night to get acquainted. It’s super cool. Wish I had started sooner.
Yeah, decentralisation has a lot of downsides. It’s definitely a barrier to entry for new folk. But at the same time, it has the single most important killer feature available, and that is that it’s can’t be controlled by a single profit driven corporation.
No ads.
Incredible range of customization and third party app options.
If I need to go on new Reddit for something, I get exhausted by all of their bs very quickly
My killer feature is I can’t be banned for saying Peter Thiel should be turned into soup thrice.
For me it’s the freedom and privacy
I don’t need to get spied on and getting banned one place because of automod being dumb (which is rare here vs mainstream places anyway) doesn’t mess with my whole account
For me it’s API usage for the most part.
When they locked the API, I was even fine with paying a bit, so I subscribed to Relay Pro. But now I got a degoogled phone, so I can’t use my play store subscription anymore, and don’t want to fiddle with cracked APKs or patching either.
The original reddit app is a nightmare to use so… that’s why I’m here lol(Freedom, privacy and decentralization are awesome too, obviously. But I’m gonna be honest, I probably wouldn’t have switched - at least not fully - if it wasn’t for having an app that works well for me.)
For me, it’s the ability to disable downvotes on a community on PieFed. On Reddit, every time a sub gets popular, discussions just get downvoted into oblivion in favor of memes. There are always certain topics you simply can’t discuss without getting buried.
With this feature, you don’t have to keep splitting a community into smaller and smaller fragments just to have a space where a topic is allowed. Everything gets represented based on how many people actually like the topic, without people who dislike it being able to effectively censor it and prevent others from discussing it. That’s the killer feature for me.
We’ve got instance level disabling of downvotes on lemmy and piefed.
It’s low key and has a slightly higher barrier to entry. This weeds out a lot of people that can’t bother to try. People here seem level headed
Haaavvve you met me?
No more AskReddit hornyposting the same questions over and over
You didn’t see the one here about gooning communities?
It has a way to disable tap to collapse. I’m always accidentally collapsing threads
for me, it’s the niche communities that i used to enjoy on reddit and lemmy has in abundance.
my niche communities on reddit used to follow r/politics, r/socialism, r/chapotraphouse, etc. and lemmy was created by like minded people.
PieFed - Blocking entire instances.
Saves the trouble of individually blocking by user or users from said instance who breed intolerant idiots.
It’s not full of fucking redditors
can’t say its one thing with piefed. there are a bunch of options. I would say for the fediverse in general besides the federated nature its the control I have of my experience. filtering and blocking as I decide and if my instance blocks things and im not cool with it I can find an instance that does not block it.
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How does Lemmy prevent this?
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