Using Reddit for years , I had come to Lemmy.

I would like to know the difference between Reddit vs Lemmy.

Like, what features Lemmy has that Reddit don’t? Does Lemmy have some features missing that already exist on Reddit?

And finally: have you heard of Libreddit yet? It has LOTS of themes, unlike Reddit, including Dracula and others.

If you’ll please tell me how can I have Dracula theme in Lemmy, I would appreciate it!

Thanks in advance,

Sincerely,

Yours,

Expert Plus

P.S. BTW, why Lemmy’s UI isn’t so look professional? I mean, it looks like Reddit’s old UI, and as for me, it’s suck, so can I have a better UI please? If so, how? Lemmy’s lite version seems to be deprecated and i didn’t find any Lemmy web apps that would be better for me. If you know one, please tell me it! Name it!

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆English
    18•9 months ago

    I feel the opposite regarding the UI. Lemmy UI is clean and easy to follow, Reddit redesign is a giant mess. It’s bloated and flashy, but not at all ergonomic in my opinion. I find threads are much harder to scan through.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆English
        13•9 months ago

        I find old reddit is fugly, but at least it’s functional. New reddit design is just too busy for my liking.

      • 1•9 months ago

        @Daryl76679 SO…

        Can you please re-read what did you just said?

        You like Lemmy’s design and hates Old Reddit’s design?

        I dislike them both, including Reddit’s new UI.

        There is an Reddit app, called Troddit, and I’m proud to say that I enjoy Troddit’s Ui and functionality :-)

        • AdaMA
          4•9 months ago

          I mean, I agree with him. I like lemmy’s design and hate old reddit

          @Daryl76679@lemmy.ml

    • @pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I generally like Lemmy’s design, with one exception. There is no formally structured recognition of rules for a community. There’s just a blob of text that the community moderators have to somehow structure in a visually appealing way. Because there is no recognition of rules, the reporting dialog box does not allow for simply selecting in a drop down, since there is nothing to select from.

    • Expert PlusOPEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Lemmy UI is clean and easy to follow

      JESUS CHRIST, GOD how can people prefer an OLD, UNSTABLE UI!!!

      Reddit redesign is a giant mess

      Okay, visit old.reddit.com . Are you happy now???

  • @uthredii@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14•9 months ago

    Lemmy vs reddit

    Federation

    The biggest difference is (and will likely always be) that LemmyNet instances are federated using activity pub. This means that posts, content and comments are shared across different activity pub instances.

    For example I have seen your post and am commenting from the beehaw instance even though you are using the Lemmy.ml instance.

    Lemmy is able to federate with mastodon and pleroma so you will see comments from there occasionally too.

    The main benefit of this (IMO) is that users don’t get locked in to a website (e.g. facebook, Instagram, reddit) where they will lose content if they leave.

    UI

    You can change your theme in settings, but there is not a huge amount of variety, mainly it is colour changes.

    The lemmy front end is seperate to the back end so it would be possible to create a more reddit like front end if you wanted to. For example nutomic has creates a bulletin board - like front end for Lemmy that looks like this:

    There is an android app for Lemmy called jerboa that has a more reddit like UI that you might want to check out (you can find it on f-droid or the play store).

    other differences

    Text posts and comments on Lemmy are just markdown so you can do things like embed images (as you can see above).

    Edit:

    Other differences worth mentioning is the difference in content. Lemmy has less content than reddit although I think there is a sustainable number of users currently. More users will join soon when hexbear (a site that uses fork of an older version of Lemmy) migrates to join Lemmy net. It is also likely that some people will migrate from reddit when reddit ipo’s.

    • Expert PlusOPEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Thanks for response :-)

      For example nutomic has creates a bulletin board - like front end for Lemmy that looks like this:

      The UI definitely 100% sucks!

      You can change your theme in settings, but there is not a huge amount of variety, mainly it is colour changes.

      Would you like to tell me how can I have Dracula theme specifically?

      Thanks in advance,

      Sincerely,

      Yours,

      Expert Plus

      P.S. BTW, I saw your response on Mastodon and it seems to be don’t support embed images via Markdown from Lemmy’s post at all:

      • @uthredii@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6•9 months ago

        Would you like to tell me how can I have Dracula theme specifically?

        I’m not really sure, the people who run your instance would need to add it. You could run your own instance and add it yourself (this repo has some examples of custom ui themes: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes).

        P.S. BTW, I saw your response on Mastodon and it seems to be don’t support embed images via Markdown from Lemmy’s

        Yes federation with mastodon/pleroma isn’t perfect right now. I believe the devs are working on it.

        • Expert PlusOPEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          ok, got it :-)

          Does your instance has Dracula theme in it?

          • @uthredii@beehaw.orgEnglish
            5•9 months ago

            I think it just has the same themes as Lemmy.ml

            One thing that might work is if you have an android phone with Dracula theme and use the jerboa app.

            Jerboa should pick up the colour scheme from your phone (at least it does for me)

  • @0x0ctagon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6•9 months ago

    There really isn’t enough content on Lemmy. That’s the main issue, no amount of extra features will help Lemmy since it’s just a social media like any other. You need a good reason to switch and atm there is no reason I would switch to Lemmy full time.

  • @erioque@lemmy.ml
    5•9 months ago

    Reddit gives me more what I want to know than Lemmy: tor onion service, linux, and etc. But Reddit has too many posts to see. Less posts in lemmy rather let me feel good in some cases.

    By the way, I was banned on Lemmy.ml after I was sarcastic about communists. You mad? Did I need to give you Rubles or the like to keep my account? I enjoyed these interactions. Reddit can’t give me this joy! :D

    • Cătă
      8•9 months ago

      @erioque lmao Lemmy is just full of these enlightened people. Why do you think they are so great fans of the Mali TLD?

      Also, let me quickly show you a way to get your content downvoted around this place:

      Slava Ukraina! Zelensky is the best leader, may he defend the sovereign and democratic nation of Ukraine until the final victory over the RuZZian orcs. Ukraine will win. Crimea is Ukraine. Donbass is Ukraine. Death to Putler and all the soldiers in the RuZZian Army!
      @expertmanofficial

      • @erioque@lemmy.ml
        3•9 months ago

        Why do you think they are so great fans of the Mali TLD?

        First, I don’t know whether they are the fans. Machine-Learning lovers? Anyway, I suspect that most posts on Lemmy including yours were made by AIs or forced labors in some communist countries.