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First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by vegals@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, I’m new here and just testing the waters. I’ve been on Reddit for years, but lately it feels like a mix of heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers where any dissenting opinion gets buried.

For those of you who’ve spent real time on Lemmy: • What do you like better here than on Reddit? • What do you miss from Reddit? • Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

I’m curious how people see it — especially those who made the switch after the API drama.

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[–] vegals@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh whoa sick. Reckon I'm about to nerd out on this for a bit. Thanks for the starter points.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

There are also regional and national communities too like lemmy.ca, feddit.uk, quokk.au, feddit.org

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Something to be aware of is that lemmy.world defederates the two major communist Lemmy instances (hexbear and lemmygrad) - preemptively, by the way - so if you have any interest in seeing that, you will need to look for another instance. Lemmy.world is generally considered the main liberal/neoliberal instance. Now that Lemmy allows each user to block entire instances, I feel that the idea of some instances deciding for their users what they should or should not be allowed to read is ridiculous.

I picked my instance, lemmy.zip, because it's one of the few major one that only rarely defederates other instances, usually only for illegal content or spam reasons. They took a more reasonable approach to the communist instances I mentioned, by blocking them by default since some people consider them controversial, but using a user-switchable block, meaning that you can very easily unblock and see content from those instances.