in what way do you prefer using Lemmy over Reddit?

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.

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.

i use a minimalist app written in rust that i prefer to the reddit or default lemmy experience

No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.

I hate the adds...and the bots
- They serve no purpose for which I have a need.
It's one of those things I don't notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).
At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they're everywhere.
- I downvote every one . Even the ones with a puppy dog or cat.
  That might be worse than not engaging at all 🤷‍♂️
Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
- Yeah, not missing reddit. Missing some of the peeps, tho.

I'm not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi

Free, no ads and custom clients. Tech Literate and Left user .

I like that people can share their unfiltered thoughts without being censored. Especially if we’re all feeling disgusted by our world’s leaders.

No fucking Spez messing with the API.

I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.

People are nicer here. For the most part.
There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.

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

The bots ran me off. I want to read human comments and converse with humans.
Caught a permaban for my, uh, spicy opinions on Russians. I rarely go back to look at something and every post has 10,000 bullshit replies.

Lemmy hasn't been enshittified.

Lemmy didn't try to force me to dox myself for "age verification".

An actually solid mobile client

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.

Banned.

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.

- Perhaps the communities are not as fake because updoots cannot be farmed (either to sell the account or just so you can feel your existence validated, lol). And maybe monotheistrevolutionaries.lemmy.ml could exist? 😅

Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.

The people are less stupid. We weed out the people who don't know how to use computers by implementing hard stuff like "choices"

Lemmy doesn't give a shit if I'm on VPN, which means I can still access it when working from home.

Lemmy as a platform doesn't care. But Lemmy as a community certainly does: You should absolutely be on a VPN in this day and age.

Not giving money or content to a shitty company is enough for me. Once I was here, I found out about the public modlog, the nature of the fediverse, and the love for Linux you people have. Also it feels kinda like, less karmawhoring content, because we don't have karma here. I don't know, this feels like it's shaped by communities for real.

I don't want to contribute content to support Reddit, Inc. They've demonstrated greedy corpo BS that I don't want to support.

If they hadn't killed RiF client, I'd still be there.

Not sure if I'd still be there, and thank God for the Connect app for Lemmy that it getting close to the point of being actually useful because without that I don't know where I'd be

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

Online, I prefer to live in a small town.

better discussions, no ads, better mobile experience

I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit's early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven't completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.

I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities
In Reddit's really early days, there weren't any subreddits.
goes back to archive.org to find out when that was
Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.
The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.
- I know I wasn't there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.

It's not overflowing with Nazis and pedos. It has a tankie problem, but it's still not as much of a problem as the Nazis and pedos on Reddit.

I did see some pedo apologists recently, but it used to be a very big issue on reddit. I hope that's not a sign they're going to stick here.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

The people here are much nicer and inquisitive. It feels like im talking to a real person instead of just content bait. I dont need 1000+ comments per post for it to be successful, I just want real people talking to real people.

Plus we can have anyone talking with anyone here. Mastodon talking to lemmy talking to piefed, etc...etc....

Unpopular opinion time: Virtually nothing. Lemmy is, from the end-user perspective, just another Reddit clone filled with the same idiots as Reddit, posting the exact same bullshit as is posted on Reddit.

The only reason I can tolerate this format of interaction has been to have a policy of blocking at least 1 imbecile per day. It actually helps, try it. Block me if you think I'm a loudmouth idiot.

The UX is just so much better in every aspect. UI is clean and (mostly) intuitive, but more importantly, supports alternative frontends and apps offering better and personalized UIs. There isn't a half-dozen roadblocks and annoyances put in the way of accessing content, like VPN-bans and ads. There isn't even a particularly high-bar to join and participate, so no worries about entering a phone number or building up karma.

I can just use the site. Now all I need is content thats actually relevant to me.

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

From a usability standpoint, Lemmy just works better, for me at least. I used old reddit with RES and Firefox, but ran into random issues stemming from one of the two.

Not corporate controlled, friendlier communities overall.

Because Reddit banned me for posting "If you have the opportunity, you should always punch a Nazi".

No wonder. As you can see, there's a lot less use of that 'O-word' over here.
- Yes, well... I'm kinda rural, and it's not everyday I see people outside of my little town. None of us are Nazis, so opportunities don't come along everyday.
- Opportunity?

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.

I'm allowed to comment without first being required to farm an unknown amount of karma.

The discussions are on average much more civil, and can actually be worth reading rather than to watch a fight. It reminds me of old school slashdot.

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)

Every way.

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

Fewer dumb kids.

The freedom to say what you want without some superadmin removing it

Yeah while psychotic mods are probably a wash, if not a little bit worse here, we don't have to deal with administrators and that's the big problem.

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

One Word: TOR

(Well its technically one acronym, 3 words xD, but you get the idea.)

I like to just make disposable account whenever I feel like to post stuff, to compartmentalize. I mean, the anonymity is so perfect, you wouldn't know if everyone on this thread is secretly my alt. (Its not, but it could be. You never know 😉)

Practically every way, except for the lewd content; Reddit just has more.

All of them.

Reddit is just a mess and very toxic expectantly sense it wont allow me to login anymore. Some of the worst places that were mostly non-nsfw were teen subs and sidheuste subs from what i experienced.

I just like lemmy better and the community, lemmy also offer more freedom without the need for a karma requirement to post.

I don't prefer lemmy. I'm locked out of the only communities i actually enjoyed, because the mirrors here are dead beyond hope.