Free, no ads and custom clients. Tech Literate and Left user .
I’m not enriching a pedophile neo-nazi
The people are less stupid. We weed out the people who don’t know how to use computers by implementing hard stuff like “choices”
An actually solid mobile client
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.
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.
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 really makes you wonder about the type of people that see an ad and say to themselves " I’m going to look into that ".
I see an advertisement and the first thing that pops in my mind is “ok, I’ll stay away from that for sure, i definitelydont want that in my life”
I was checking my weather app, and they fed me an ad for something that I didn’t even know what it was, so I went to the website, clicked around a bunch, just so they thought I was interested. All Praise be to VPN! Sometimes reinforcing a mis-impression is the best thing one can do.
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.
Lemmy didn’t try to force me to dox myself for “age verification”.
Lemmy hasn’t been enshittified.
No fucking Spez messing with the API.
Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.
Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.
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People are nicer here. For the most part.
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There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.
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I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.
