Just left reddit because I got tired of moderation and I do not agree with political views over all. I never tried 4chan because I heard it’s messed up and supposedly inject maleware on visitors like porn sites do.
As a person new to Lemmy, I just wanna know why you chose here and what you like/ dislike about there.
You’re really asking why people prefer Lemmy to 4chan? To 4chan!? Really?
nice answer, exactly what I feel about 4chan 😆
now is this the hacker 4chan or his brother?
Does anybody know why the Chans named their kids 4 & 8?
Are those names more common where they are from?
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4chan is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, and I moved from reddit after 15 years.
Why did you leave reddit? Mind sharing?
They took steps to kill the app I used to access the site without providing a functional alternative.
Because Reddit is only remotely useful with apps and lied to, screwed over, and slandered all the app developers who made Reddit functional.
Got banned for “report abuse” because I reported a pro genocidal comment on r/worldnews.
They banned me from the sub then successfully petitioned Reddit to ban the entire account.
If I can’t even report the genocidal content on one of their largest subreddits without losing my account, I’m not going to fit in enough to stay.
I left Reddit because they killed my favorite app and theirs was trash.
4chan is a cesspool.
There’s not a lot of activity here, so you can’t endlessly scroll new content, but you see a lot of the same names in the comments, and that makes people seem more “real” than Reddit.
I don’t really like 4chan. I moved here from reddit when the whole API thing started because I did not like the way thri started treating their users (and even worst, how they treated their mods) and never looked back.
Were you a mod?
I left reddit for Lemmy because 4chan, twitter, Facebook, etc are most assuredly not alternatives to reddit in the sense I am looking for. The only other alternative I might have chosen was Tildes, but it was (and still is afaik) invite only.
I like this format over any other besides maybe a good ol’ fashioned forum (like PHPBB).
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Tildes is alright but it’s not something I could ever regularly participate in like Lemmy, which is by design and I respect that, but it’s never going to fill the reddit niche for me.
I probably have an invite if you want.
I prefer open source software and was really glad to see that Lemmy was a thing. I tried it about a year before the whole Reddit API debacle went down and left because there was just too few users at the time, but then when the Reddit API thing happened, I came back, deleted my Reddit account, and have been here ever since. I was a moderator on a sub, and now I moderate a community here. [email protected] because i enjoyed the discussions on /r/tmobile.
4chan is a bit too racist.
4chan is a wholly different type of site. It’s an image board, not about link sharing. Use of screen names is discouraged.
Also why would you go to a site labelled the asshole of the Internet if you’re looking for actual discussion and conversation. If you want porn or want nazi-adjacent discussion or great wallpapers, sure, go there.I think most people here left Reddit when Spez started the thing with the API and asserted his dominance during the protests. That’s when we learned it’s not our platform, but his. And he has a very different vision for the place.
People who properly like 4chan don’t really mix with other people. It’s for trolling, shitposting, sharing porn and gore amongst random stuff or shouting at each other. More anarchy than other places. And filled with incels and 14 year olds. I mean it’s a bit more than that and it has it’s unique culture. But there isn’t really an overlap with people who like places like this one. This is less anarchy, you can discuss your Linux server adminisration woes here without getting yelled at. Or share pictures of your crocheting pieces. Of course also memes and pictures.
I left reddit last year during the API bullshit. 4chan is full of cancer, and Lemmy is pretty much the next biggest community that I could find. I’m also on a couple of smaller sites like Discuit and Tildes.
They are all platforms that allow a variety of political views, as opposed to Xitter, which has taken to suspending the accounts of civil rights advocates.
From my experience 4chan is not a place for any sort of serious discussions. From what I saw there it’s about trying to shock, disgust, and/or troll people as much as possible.
Reddit lost what little interest I had remaining when they announced they would be selling our content to train LLMs. To be clear, they were already on a downward spiral before then with their ever increasing focus on monetizing the platform as much as possible, but the “AI” business was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.
I like FOSS and I like it did’nt being easily censored…
Was looking for something similar to Reddit where links can be shared and voted. I also wanted a more general instance hence why I’m on lemmy world.
What do you mean by general instance?
Lemmy IS the alternative. I love the concept of the fediverse, and I prefer forum discussion over microblogging, so Lemmy was the obvious choice. Discussion is more meaningful here because people don’t race to comment a joke or pun just to farm upvotes. Comments also do not get buried here unlike on reddit where there’s no point in commenting on popular posts once they’re over an hour old because no one will see it anyway.
