Honestly, I root for lemmy and use it daily. However, Reddit still wins on pure content and niche communities.
Idk it got worse when all the porn subs started dying
rip
Why did porn subs start dying?
Imgur was bought out and they nuked all the top all time photos and gifs, I call that the start of the downfall.
All the communities still appear to be very active though.
Didn’t you know if someone doesn’t find anything new in their niche kink fetish content anymore, then “Reddit is dying”? Same with niche forums with about 100 users. No more posts?
REDDIT IS DYING
Reddit was realy god in my local areal, so thats what immissinhg. Lemmy,isnt just there yet. Not many from my area. So yir i like Lemmy for the lack of adds, and for notsellinhg my data
lemmy doesn’t have spez, so lemmy is better.
I still end up using reddit in searches when I’m looking for an answer, but I’ve learned a few things I’d never have even thought about in the short time I’ve been on Lemmy.
General usage, Lemmy
Technical usage, Reddit.
Same. I have trade and niche hobby interests that don’t have critical mass here.
Conversations are better here tho
Lemmy, overall. There are things I miss from Reddit but whenever I browse it now it’s just so full of advertising.
I prefer Lemmy, but unfortunately it is missing a lot of the communities I liked on Reddit, and there doesn’t seem to be as much content. When I’m looking for information on a specific topic I’ll still check out Reddit but I haven’t logged in since the Reddit drama and don’t plan to. I do hope Lemmy gets bigger, though.
i prefer mbin
lemmy, but I still check reddit after I’m done here
Reddit is still a lot more crowded, but I prefer Lemmy simply because of no ads and the actual conversations that you can have with people.
Agreed. You could argue that Reddit is actually overcrowded.
Damn bruh, why won’t you click on my OF?
This.
Lol just a joke about the annoying “this” comments on Reddit.
Holy shit I completely forgot about those shitty comment metas. Lemmy comment sections are so much nicer
This is exactly how I feel. Reddit is so full of bots, spam, and ads that it’s really only good for checking a few niche subreddits. I can browse Lemmy at random and be pretty entertained.
There a ways to remove ads from Reddit and it’s much nicer to use, your can still use 3rd party apps like Boost, bots are still a problem.
Reddit comment is just bot paradise, once i realise bot just do repost and copy/paste comment, the value and urge of adding my own comment just immensely decrease.
I would prefer Lemmy/Kbin but all the communities I actively followed on Reddit are still there
Lemmy absolutely.
- no algorithm
- no ads
- actual real people in the comments
- the ability for third parties to make apps
- the fact that it’s not mainstream means most of the people on here are at least a little nerdy which I am here for.
- feels a lot like what reddit used to be 15 years ago before the age of algorithms and bots everywhere.
Lemmy 100% has an algorithm. It’s not a complicated one but any method for determining what content shows up is an algorithm.
No the commenter but I think it’s one of those language things where algorithm (at least in the context of social media) has come to mean a personalized feed, like two people have different all feeds versus an algorithm like sorting by hot or active posts that every has the same posts. To your point both are algorithms but it’s one of those thing where the word has taken on its own meaning
Precisely. The colloquial use of algorithm indicates a form of targeted content delivery where your personal preferences are weaponized against you (aka TikTok)
Yeah pretty much exactly what I was thinking about. I like being able to curate and have some legitimate control over what I’m seeing
An open source algorithm that the user base can see and understand how it works is different than a closed source algorithm that serves to benefit advertisers more than users
That always comes with a double edged sword. An open source algorithm can be gamed more easily. IIRC, that’s why Reddit moved to closed source for theirs originally, spammers were specifically targeting it. I don’t think Lemmy’s big enough yet to attract that sort of detailed inspection, but it happened in the past. I’m not saying Lemmy should close source its algorithm, of course. Though maybe a pluggable algorithm would be a good idea, to make it so that people could use a diverse set of algorithms that would be more difficult to target as a whole?
Yep, Trump’s campaign figured out how to game Reddit’s algorithm. Sticky a post and essentially tell anyone in the subreddit to upvote any stickied post on any visit which would quickly drive the stickied post to the top of all quickly.
Fair enough, but I’d say the other commenters have articulated what I meant pretty well
Is this a trick question
Most of the time, lemmy.
Obviously, the difficulty with very niche communities not being useful here can be annoying.
And, being real, the lack of robust moderation tools makes moderating a pain in the ass.
But, overall, I find the people on lemmy less prone to bad behavior, and the discussions more rewarding. That makes up for the underlying missing functional things worth it.
Reddit, even before they went full asshole as a company, had the major problem of being big. Humans are assholes for the most part. The more people you have, and the lower the bar for entry, the more of those assholes are going to be a problem.
Lemmy has assholes too. The usual knee jerk reactionaries, trolls, and that sort of thing. But the very minor extra effort of having to pick an instance reduces how many of the brain dead assholes will put in the effort. The assholes are a better quality of asshole lol.
But damn, there were some long established communities on reddit that simply can’t be reproduced here because you can’t make old communities. There are a ton of subs that had been around since subs came around. You can’t duplicate that kind of organic growth. There’s very few C/s on lemmy that have a real sense of community yet. I think it’ll happen, but it hasn’t had time for a lot of real cultures to spring up the way reddit had.
I miss the hell out of those long established neighborhoods.
We cannot make old communities, but the second best time to plant a tree is today. That’s why I’m here, commenting and posting.
I love your comment: “The second best time to plant a tree is today”. Not sure if it’s a quote you’ve reused but, from here on in, I’m using it.
I believe it’s an ancient proverb. Nothing is truly original, but it applies to many areas such as self improvement.
Reminds me of another: societies grow great when old men plant seeds for trees whose shade they know they’ll never enjoy.
Lemmy, reddit is more active and has more content but Lemmy will get there. The front page is awful now. It’s full of ads and suggested crap. I subscribed to things for a reason. I liked seeing posts I cared about. This shoving content down my throat approach curiously made me get off the site sooner.
