No "total karma" for accounts.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Which by extension removes the stupid one liner contest that every reddit post devolves into.
And karma farming shitposts
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This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.
No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.
Relatively tech literate user base
Not for long if the migration continues
Seeing downvotes as soon as there's at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.
Reddit used to have that with a browser add on called Reddit Enhancement Suite. They cut off access to the downvote numbers a while ago. I've missed it ever since.
Downvotes were shown by default without RES. They removed it but RES dev made it possible somehow.
Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.
YES! Especially since just about every social media has removed or never included dislikes at this point.
Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.
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The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.
Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.
When account migration gets added and something like community sync is in place, I can see that issue being mitigated. Sure, there might be some chaos, but the underlying nature of the fediverse makes the issue much less likely to occur.
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Feels more intimate. It's actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I'm kind of addicted already ๐ฌ
I like the small community feel, as well. What's nice about that is that Lemmy doesn't have to get big to be what it needs to be (but bigger is still nice).
Unicode characters in display names.
That you're not walking on eggshells.
My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.
So hopefully we won't get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.
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No karma
Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive
I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage
Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.
It feels way more community focused. There's a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.
The smaller community.
I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes... Today you can't interact anymore, just "consume".
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Better UI
so far at least there are no constant annoying automod filters like 'this title needs to be 250 characters not including spaces, have a [i'm a dumbass] flair, etc etc'
it does nothing to improve the quality of anything and makes the whole UX more annoying. on r/gonewildaudio there's like a paragraph of flairs
Ooooh we can edit titles?
Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response
I'm happy I won't have to deal with seeing subreddits named _____porn, like DesignPorn. So immature and cringe
There are a ton of them, actually. There's like 10 on lemmy.ml if you search "porn" on https://browse.feddit.de/
That's unfortunate, I was hoping it wouldn't be a thing. Oh well, it's not a big deal
Yeah, the diversity means that there's bound to be content you dont like. Simple enough to just block the community though, and then they wont show up for you anymore.
There's a big red block button in the sidebar on desktop, and then you can also manage your blocks in your settings page.
i love being able to see individual upvote and downvote counts. the nuance is actually very important
The friendly community
Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc
Why that was the best part for me ๐. Will get on it to make Lemmy feel more like home ๐.
No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.
To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.
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You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.
Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.
Currently it feels like an opposite Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat ๐คฉ https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
Way fewer bots. I don't think I realized how bad reddit was.
Man I'm not looking forward to when the bots find Lemmy.
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