I get to see answer this question every month.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.
No karma means being able to post in any sub without having to have 100+ karma.
true, that's a big fucking plus
Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.
Spiritually. A sense of freedom.
Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)
There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.
I don't I'm just banned there. I would be fine with lemmy if there were more people here with specific tiny sub-comunities like reddit. hell, there arent even big fandom pages here...
Reddit bans are easy to evade if you really need to be on there
I tried making a new account when I was on a different ISP than at my home, so I need to be on a new device in a new place...
Did you do things like clear all your cookies and reset everything you can on your devices and then power cycle your modem? Iβve evaded bans multiple times and all on my WiFi by just doing those steps. I
no, I'm a bit computer illiterate tbh, but I'll look it up and do that at some point, right now it's just not worth the bother for me really, I'm mostly sad the 15 year old account is dead...
I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.
I've never really since I didn't have any reason to, although I regularly use it as a knowledge base since Lemmy cannot compete on that regard.
I like the idea of the fediverse so I thought I'd come here.
Also surveilance capitalism sucks ass.
Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.
Yes
Right answer.
Reddit banned my 10 year old account because they flagged it as a ban evasion account, stupid cunts.
I'm new to lemmy as a whole, So time will tell.
I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.
It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.
All ways.
Is the most concise answer "Every"? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.
On Lemmy I only follow news and informative stuff, and on here there's an emphasis on the things I'm already interested in (FOSS, Privacy, etc.)
I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.
Digg
Well the apps and interface is better for sure.
I still doom scroll reddit Iβm somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.
It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.
Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts
It's all open, we can participate in its development.
Most of all: it's run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.
I've been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.
I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.
I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
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