For me, it was the toxic circlejerk (admins/mods as well) low quality content getting upvoted while high quality submissions not getting much attention/buried and obvious privacy issues.

    • 1st
      9·
      4 years ago

      Yup, basically this. Smaller communities are less toxic and also lemmy has no incentive for profit. Reddits literal main goal is to make you scroll as long as possible but lemmy’s only incentive is to create a good expirience. The security is nice aswell :)

  • Ravn
    21·
    4 years ago

    US centrism. I tried to unsub from the worst offending communities, but I still am unable to scroll down a page without seeing something obviously only relevant to the US or tainted by yankee culture. posts and comments assume everyone is USian and anyone who isn’t is treated like a foreigner.

    It made my mood worse, affecting my daily life. So I cut down, and now I barely go there at all.

    • nutomicA
      13·
      4 years ago

      I hate this so much. To be honest, Lemmy also has this problem to a lesser degree, but I hope that it will get better once we add improved support for other languages, and once other instances start to grow.

      • thetransagenda
        4·
        4 years ago

        as a US citizen it was one of the first things I noticed on the Mastodon, how non us centric it was. It was refreshing. I remember a lot of cool accounts on my old profile from Radical Town. I think you may have actually been one of the mods there.

        • nutomicA
          2·
          4 years ago

          Not a mod but I used to be pretty active there. And I would say that English language Mastodon is also often very US centric.

          • ster
            3·
            4 years ago

            Sadly, almost anything English is US centric

    • DessalinesA
      6·
      4 years ago

      That’s the main thing for me. The biggest subs are completely US-centric and espouse a US-centered worldview. And of course new reddit is unbearable to use. I’m convinced the only thing holding up reddit is the ecosystem of great mobile apps, none of which are made by reddit the company.

      The only genuinely good content is on niche communities, which could easily be moved anywhere like here.

  • Dragon
    211·
    4 years ago

    fuck centralized platforms. all my homies hate centralized platforms.

    • k_o_t
      3·
      4 years ago

      interesting 🧐

      although i think there’s a typo in the first point: the word something is missing the s, not sure if that’s intentional or if you’re the author, but just in case…

  • uthredii
    17·
    4 years ago

    I still use reddit as it has content lemmy doesn’t.

    But yeah I think there is a lot of bots/shills that manipulate the conversation on reddit that doesn’t really happen on lemmy. This will happen on lemmy too if it gets big enough.

    Federation is also cool. If lemmy does end up full of bots/shills then someone could make a new instance with some new rules that help to reduce the number of bots (e.g. answer some questions about a post to comment or something).

  • linkert
    16·
    4 years ago

    Their site redesign was damn heavy for my potato laptop and the old one was unpractical.

    Mob mentality.

    US-centric.

    Ads.

    Karma.

    There’s a lot of good to but when a viable, open and federated alternative popped up, I jumped on it. Really enjoying Lemmy those few minutes I have spare to throw away at procrastination, opinions or praise.

  • fossdd
    14·
    4 years ago

    Open-Sourse at the first moment. But Lemmy offer so much more then only being a Reddit in Open-Source.

  • covecove
    14·
    4 years ago

    well, i’m still lurking on reddit. you can’t really beat it content wise, but i also need another place to hang out and actually have conversations that has not been completely taken over by corporate money like reddit has. too much censorship going on over there. i also remember lemmy reading a while ago that lemmy took a stance towards being anarchist-friendly and anti-fascist. that’s nice to know and I hope it stays this way.

  • Elbullazul
    10·
    4 years ago

    I’m still on reddit, but I like that there’s no karma farming on lemmy 🙂

  • ster
    5·
    4 years ago

    Reddit rate limited me and then suspended my account and I have no idea why

      • ster
        2·
        4 years ago

        My account was 7 years old, but because I always refused to attach an email to my account they must have decided I was bad

        • ster
          2·
          4 years ago

          Also they have now suspended my account for some reason…