Asklemmy

Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)

I get to see answer this question every month.

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.

Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.

Spiritually. A sense of freedom.

It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.

No ads, and generally more left-leaning.

I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.

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.

Well the apps and interface is better for sure.

I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.

There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.

It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.

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 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...

lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.

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.

Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.

I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.

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.

Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.

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.

It's all open, we can participate in its development.

I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account

Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.

All ways.

I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.

No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts

Is the most concise answer "Every"? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.

Yes

I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.

My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.

Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.

It's small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.

Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.

Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations

I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.

No ads and no corporate censorship.