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.
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?
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.
No social forum is without its zealous rule enforcers. Reddit at some point went past that straight into oligarchic authorianism. Or in less pretentious words, reddit mods were more and more often huge cunts.
Lemmy is more partitioned. Mods only get cuntish on topics they get invested in for now, which is normal, because they’re not robots.
It’s better to walk away from conflicts here and skip what doesn’t fit your views.Reddit’s CEO offends me, and I’ve heard bad things about 4chan too.
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 chose federated networks, not Lemmy per se. Right now I use:
- Firefish (Mastodon with a better kit)
- Kbin (Developing Lemmy alternative w/o problematic devs)
- Pixelfed (Instagram alternative, good except export tools lacking)
Federated is awesome because its more open and encourages choice, and I actually feel like there are friends to be made.
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.
Not allowed on Reddit and 4chan is a cesspool
You’re really asking why people prefer Lemmy to 4chan? To 4chan!? Really?
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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nice answer, exactly what I feel about 4chan 😆
I’m a 4chan anon and have been for a long time. It’s a Wild West situation still due to the anon culture. A LOT OF STUFF ON THERE IS EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE AND WRONG. Oddly enough I’ve interacted with some awesome anons and that’s what keeps me going back. Highly DONT recommend anyone check the site out.
Reddit used to be fucking dope when I joined in 2012. I was a Digg enjoyer in my youth and Reddit was even better for me. Over time the culture changed, not necessarily a bad thing either just different. Helped me a lot actually become a better more inclusive human. The Admins however have made a string of terrible decisions and I can no longer support the site. They hung the redditors out to dry and I’m so thankful for Lemmy for giving us a link aggregator with a comment section sans the bullshit.
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 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.
I always wanted to be in the fediverse but I didn’t like Mastodon at all and Lemmy (or his alternatives) didn’t have almost no users… When the massive migration of users from Reddit to Lemmy happened, I took advantage of it and I’ve been here ever since (using other accounts).
But why did you decide to choose fediverse when reddit and 4chan are much bigger and popular? What did you not like about reddit and 4chan?
I have never liked 4chan because I consider the lack of moderation to be a very very bad thing, but honestly I have never used it nor have I been attracted to it, on the other hand, I used Reddit for many years and I consider it to be ok (leaving aside the API abuse and training AI with your users posts), but I’m on Lemmy because I like the open source philosophy and I tend to use exclusively open source software, and since Lemmy is an open source project I really enjoy being here. I always wanted to use Mastodon but as I said, I don’t like Twitter, so Lemmy is my paradise.
What do you think about moderation on reddit?
I find it difficult to give an opinion on this, on the one hand I consider that it should not be easy to be a moderator but on the other hand I remember cases of certain communities (r/JusticeServed) where the moderators were corrupt and accepted money in exchange for banning someone from the sub, or tried to hide certain posts that did not suit them, and that seems to me to be complete bullshit but not all subreddit’s mods are like that and you can not judge like that.
I guess Lemmy’s advantage in this case, is that because of the nature of the fediverse it is more difficult for that to happen, but it can happen.
It is something I need to figure out on my own but what is moderation like here? Similar to reddit? Are mods paid or volunteers?
I think on Reddit most mods were volunteers, those who were paid were the admins.
And so far I haven’t encountered any problems with moderators personally although not long ago there was a problem with a community (c/shitposting) where some unscrupulous users started to upload child pornography (CP) (another term is used but I don’t remember) in the comments as images and that sucked because Lemmy unlike Reddit has no automatic post deletion tool (like bots) or enough moderation tools (as I have read from some moderators) and you must consider that the instances are maintained by people like you and me without any legal backing, if I have an instance where I federated with you and someone uploads CP now that CP will be in my own instance and that can have serious legal consequences for everyone. and besides, since moderators are volunteers they can’t spend all day checking every post and comment because they have a real life out there.
4chan is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, and I moved from reddit after 15 years.
Why did you leave reddit? Mind sharing?
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.
Because Reddit is only remotely useful with apps and lied to, screwed over, and slandered all the app developers who made Reddit functional.
They took steps to kill the app I used to access the site without providing a functional alternative.
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.
