Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? - Sopuli
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What are your thoughts on the Lemmy ecosystem? I’ve been trying it out for the last week. I have my own opinions, but I’d like to hear others and see if we have common ideas on what is good/bad/indifferent about the Lemmy ecosystem.
    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Love the proactiveness, great to see!

      May I make one suggestion for your standard response? One of the things many of us hated about Reddit was the removal of third-party apps. Having an ecosystem of great ones, be they Voyager, Thunder, Sync, etc, is a fantastic benefit over Reddit.

      Perhaps use that fact, and then provide your preference? Makes me wonder if there is a central list of apps anywhere, actually…

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Lemmy isn’t perfect but everything it does is the best users can do to benefit the users.

    Over time that matters the most as instead of enshitification you end up getting a progressively optimized app.

    It’s the slow and steady wins the race approach.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Lemmy is so much better than Reddit it is no contest. Lemmy just needs a bit more growth.

    • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I honestly appreciate the current scale of Lemmy. It feels nostalgic of oldskool forums or even oldskool reddit. But I can’t deny the a larger scale brings certain advantages that are almost essential for a modern online community. It also brings risks. I’m very curious to see where the future will lead lemmy and if it will be able to withstand the traps others haven fallen into.

      • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Fully agreed. Lemmy‘s developers being tankies influences the whole ecosystem negatively. The strong presence of FOSS activists here adds another group of ideologues. Even mods outside lemmy.ml will moderate along similar hard ideological lines. Political content is often an echo chamber on lemmy. Downvotes for disagreements are the norm. The mods are more arbitrary than even those on Reddit. I’ve seen many times how they delete posts and replies, just because they offer disagreeing information. There are lots of unwritten arbitrary rules. Users are banned and the communities they founded are deleted with all their posts. I’ve seen lots of useful content removed through this mechanism. Overall moderation is far more arbitrary here than on Reddit.

        Most other Reddit alternatives were filled with racists and cp. Lemmy is a haven for tankies.

          • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            18 days ago

            I don’t know if this is worth my time. It’s not just lemmy.ml and hexbear. lemmy.world, solarpunk, and feddit.org are also affected for example.

            sh.itjust.works seems to be the exception. Answers that are tolerated in !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works get deleted or users banned on world, worldnews, news, and similar. I’m strictly talking about posts that don’t violate any written rules.

            I suspect this is a major reason why lemmy isn’t more popular and growth has stalled. The core users are free software true believers and Marxist fundamentalists and want to stay among themselves.

            • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              18 days ago

              I would say it’s still worth reporting. I don’t follow news or politics very closely, but having propaganda reported is always useful.

              I suspect this is a major reason why lemmy isn’t more popular and growth has stalled. The core users are free software true believers and Marxist fundamentalists and want to stay among themselves.

              I don’t think so. I’ve contacted a few mods from different subreddits to ask to create one post to talk about Lemmy, and how it could be an alternative to Reddit enshittification, all of them have been negative.

              People are not magically going to learn about Lemmy if the platform which is the most similar does not allow to talk about it: https://sopuli.xyz/post/17981609

  • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I’m confused, he didn’t answer the questions or state their own personal opinions like OP asked. It’s just like a welcome landing message/page, really well put together but… that’s it? Lemmy’s number one ambassador explains why Lemmy is an effective alternative to Reddit… did they? Seems more like an introduction to using the lemmyverse, not a presentation of being an effective alternative besides that other social media sites don’t have the user base that this site does.

    This all seems like weird circlejerking of an administrator.