Reddit is still a lot more crowded, but I prefer Lemmy simply because of no ads and the actual conversations that you can have with people.
This is exactly how I feel. Reddit is so full of bots, spam, and ads that it’s really only good for checking a few niche subreddits. I can browse Lemmy at random and be pretty entertained.
Reddit comment is just bot paradise, once i realise bot just do repost and copy/paste comment, the value and urge of adding my own comment just immensely decrease.
I generally prefer Lemmy to Reddit, although I do miss being able to find niche communities that are both populated and active. Smaller communities tend to become ghost towns around here, unfortunately.
Lemmy seems a lot less toxic than Reddit. Every now and then I see comments here of people that are assholes, but its not the norm. Whenever I would check the comment feeds in Reddit, so many of them devolve into petty bickering. It seemed like a quarter of the user base set out that day to either be pissed off, or to piss someone else off.
that is part of using the internet. you see it less because less people use it. reddit has become a circle jerk just never become a community or group of people that likes to sniff there own farts. and this problem will solve itself.
lemmy doesn’t have spez, so lemmy is better.
i prefer mbin
My comrades on Lemmy, though sometimes insular, are some of the friendliest, most supportive people I’ve ever known online.
Lemmy is better, but the communities I care the most about and want to give the most to aren’t on lemmy, so I don’t really have the luxury of using it quite as much as I’d like. I do like it here, though
Reddit definitely has more users and more communities that don’t exist here but I prefer lemmy because no ads and no corporation trying to sell my data
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I like Lemmy more. I visit 4 subs on Reddit, not daily. I think it doesn’t have to be an either/or necessarily. I refuse to use their app. Rip baconreader.
Ive been enjoying Lemmy again after uninstalling reddit after growing tired of seeing nothing but bad news in my feed (probably something I could fix but at the same time I was supposed to have left the site anyways), reddit still has the edge in content but Lemmy is still a good time killer for me.
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I prefer Lemmy for:
- actually engaging with content (commenting/posting/voting) instead of simply consuming. By the time the API restrictions came around and the ads/bots started to dominate, it felt pointless to engage on Reddit any more.
- the positive parts of the federated and FOSS nature. Choose an instance, build your own, use or build any client you want to, federate or defederate whoever you want.
I prefer Reddit for:
- getting info/recommendations on things. The knowledge base is magnitudes larger than anything Lemmy can offer atm. Also, due to the centralized nature, it’s so much easier to search for something on Reddit.
Lemmy’s got some problems and I can’t stand the interinstance drama, also, due to the decentralized nature, some instances can’t keep up or the admins don’t care any more, so whole communities can essentially be held hostage or simply die until a toolset to move a community from one instance to another (and propagate the change properly to the Fediverse) becomes available.
I hate reddit but I was forced to go there since I apparently have nice interested, but they started going private and now I just use reddit for porn curation
I haven’t touched reddit to browse it since I made my lemmy account. I still wind up there from an occasional search with no other relevant results.
The way lemmy functions is vastly superior to reddit IMO and I have no plans to return.
This right here, other than a thread or two, I have not been back since I ditched it last June.
