I like being able to edit titles!
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
No “total karma” for accounts.
Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.
How dare you say that! My mother was a saint
And karma farming shitposts
<j> ikr, those people are actual zombies. </j> 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.
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
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.
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.
Downvotes were shown by default without RES. They removed it but RES dev made it possible somehow.
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.
YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.
Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.
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
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
Unicode characters in display names.
Better UI
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.
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.
Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.
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.
Ooooh we can edit titles?
i love being able to see individual upvote and downvote counts. the nuance is actually very important
Way fewer bots. I don’t think I realized how bad reddit was.
Man I’m not looking forward to when the bots find Lemmy.
When you sort by “New” it kinda refreshes in realtime.
Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.
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 😬
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).
