I like that its smaller, it feels like the Internet used to back in the day. You get to know posters better which is nice

  • besselj@lemmy.caEnglish
    50·
    27 days ago

    No intrusive ads or trackers. Less AI slop and more genuine human interaction. The ability to easily block communities, users, and instances is nice too.

    And it’s safe to say Luigi here

    • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      27 days ago

      All this plus no profile karma. Meaning instead of chasing numbers to inflate our accounts and increase our perceived worth (whether consciously or subconsciously), people just are.

      Or as you put it: more genuine human interaction.

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
    19·
    27 days ago
    • Self hosting
    • Can’t get banned
    • Feeling of being a part of something larger but not overwhelming large yet still having some control
    • Good range of mobile and web frontends
    • No adverts
    • No tracking
    • Memes, sometimes older memes and not getting ridiculed for them
    • Seeing other users from my instance on my travels

    Some things I tolerate

    • American politics
    • Random porn
    • Bot spam
  • Geetnerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    27 days ago

    No Spez, and not getting permabanned for criticizing Corporate interests, or Musk, specifically.

  • theblips@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    27 days ago

    No ads, apparently no bots, no reddit-style comments like “This.”, no corporation involved

    • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      27 days ago

      I feel like this will be inevitable with growth. Unless we get to foster a consciousness about its problems and get instances to actively prevent those

  • marighost@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    I can sort my subscribed page by top 12 hours and only use Lemmy once or twice a day. Helps with controlling doom scrolling.

    Other than that, there’s better human interaction here. I’ve started recognizing names and pfps which is pretty cool too. Some of y’all seem rad.

    • TheDannysaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      27 days ago

      I genuinely feel different writing here. On Reddit I constantly analyzed the 18 different ways some random person would take my comment badly. Now I just write stuff and people don’t instantly assume I’m an evil moron.

  • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    27 days ago

    I like how open the ecosystem is. You can pick any instance, any web app, any mobile app, block instances you don’t want to see, etc. You have much more control over what you see and how you interact with the system.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    27 days ago
    • Third party apps.
    • The subscribed feed doesn’t contain uninvited random junk. I guess irrelevant trash drives engagement among some people, but it’s just driving me mad instead.
    • Lemmy is still wild and untamed, like Reddit used to be.
    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      27 days ago

      Not THAT wild and untamed, unfortunately. I’d love an eyeblech/NSFW community, but that’s not really welcome here.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago

    I never really did spend much time on reddit, so Lemmy was never a replacement for me.

    Even now Lemmy feels much different than it was a few years ago. It is wild seeing posts with only a few comments and hundreds of up/downvotes.