Asklemmy

Reddit by far was a better experience; more content, better moderation, less negativity.

I’m still here on Lemmy, though, in hope of it getting better (and it definitely scratches the same itch as Reddit without the corporate arrogance).

That said, even though it annoys me, I do find myself getting exposed to a wider array of opinions on Lemmy that I just never saw on Reddit. And while I disagree with a lot of it it’s probably healthier for things to be that way. The tankies, though … so many tankies.

honestly, I preferred reddit. But I'm here out of principle.

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.

I avoid reddit out of principle even though I would prefer it. It's only going down hill from here on out and they've neglected their app so much it's too painful to attempt to use it.

My main reasoning is content and sometimes the comments. Content here is a bit slow but a lot commenters are kind of a-holes and painfully obnoxious. Especially from lemmy.ml, always a little anxious when I comment.

Honestly, at this point I kinda prefer to go on Reddit. I'm getting tired of all the tech/FOSS talk and there's so much doom and gloom on here it just bums me out.

I haven’t posted on Reddit since they treated third party app devs like shit. I’m done with that site.

Reddit, but I won't post or engage there on principle.

Honestly, I root for lemmy and use it daily. However, Reddit still wins on pure content and niche communities.

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.

Reddit continuously grew more toxic with astroturfers, bots, and other bad-faith actors after the protest. I deleted all of my accounts the day they went public since that was the previously planned line-in-the-sand for me. I only visit periodically every few days to check my local towns subreddit for news. It would be nice to have a bigger community with Lemmy but I certainly don't miss the constant arguments.

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 is safer than Reddit to me, and it looks like other people here would probably agree.

Reddit is full of haters, bots, and spam.

Lemmy doesn’t have any of that.

You can engage in social discussion better here.

Lemmy. Federation and the lack of a profit motive makes it much better.

I would also rather be surrounded by leftist vs liberal drama, rather than liberal vs fascist drama.

I generally prefer Lemmy to Reddit, although I do miss being able to find niche communities that are both populated and active. Smaller communities tend to become ghost towns around here, unfortunately.

Lemmy seems a lot less toxic than Reddit. Every now and then I see comments here of people that are assholes, but its not the norm. Whenever I would check the comment feeds in Reddit, so many of them devolve into petty bickering. It seemed like a quarter of the user base set out that day to either be pissed off, or to piss someone else off.

I haven't used reddit since the announcement of the API changes

Lemmy, and I'm never going back. I just wish we had the abundance of content that Reddit does. There's a lot of communities I miss.

I like Lemmy, but it's too quiet, I often only see a dozen new posts total daily.

Prefer Reddit’s volume of posts. Prefer lemmy in general. Disappointed that lemmy resembles reddit way too much.