It has support for 3rd party apps.

Lemmy doesn't have u/spez, so it's already infinitely better

Simple, it's open source and distributed, and that's what matters.

I find the moderation is better here. My posts aren't being removed because they didn't match some forced title formatting or some other arbitrary reason.

People also aren't just redirecting people to decade old posts and megathreads which is nice.

Think about what AskReddit is like with the same kind of posts over and over again because they decided to limit posters to the title text.

A social network/online community can either be significantly profitable or healthy for its users. Pick one

This again?

No fucking ADS

It's owned by people, not a person.

in a nutshell, it's made for people, not for money

I can see real upvotes and downvotes.

I can use whichever method of access I want while not having to deal with 26263663 different types of data harvesters.
The few ads there are are easily recognizable spam posts, as opposed to sanctioned ads camouflaged as user content.
Fewer reposts.
Generally better quality members. Yes, that includes YOU

• Open-source; no one party has monopoly control over the codebase.

• Federated; no one party has monopoly control over the existing network.

• The operators have no problem with third-party clients.

1. 3rd party apps.

2. Fewer Nazis.

3. Small enough to not have ridiculous rules that make it so only the mods and friends of mods can actually post something without it automatically being removed by an automod bot.

4. Fewer dickhead mods.

5. Either fewer dickheads in general, or at least fewer of them making multiple accounts so that blocking a dickhead actually works.

6. Open source, not owned by a megacorp.

Besides what everyone else has said, I find the conversations here to be smarter. People who left Reddit are probably just more attuned to what’s happening. There’s probably less diversity of opinion here but that’s a trade I’m willing to make.

Basically, quantity vs. quality. I chose quality. Even on Reddit, I was mostly into smaller subs where experts responded to questions (like AskHistorians or AskPhysics) than the bigger ones. (I was banned from r/relationships for asking why women always think you’re hitting on them when you’re actually recruiting a team of elite female assassins. The mods apparently didn’t think it was funny.)

Accessibility is a big plus. Reddit is opposed to 3rd party apps while their official app is appallingly stuttery and feature-incomplete.

I'm not permabanned here for being obscenely anti-russia.

Yes, no ads + third party apps and a better political atmosphere is a win for me

Because Reddit got worse

I stopped using Reddit around the great anime purge. Became an unfriendly place to hangout.

Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit.. It is crazy! Try going to reddit's deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site..

Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in...

And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht.. On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.

It's open source, has no ads by default, supports custom clients and is built with Rust which means it's very performant. Sure, it lacks some features that are very useful like flairs. And the moderation tools could be improved.

Reddit's website is literally shit and bloated as fuck. While Lemmy is pretty minimalistic. Some UI improvements to make it more pretty could be made but it's fine to be honest.

foss, decentralised, no spez, api

The only reason it is better right now is a combination of obscurity and people not grasping how federation works as a slight barrier to entry means it has fewer people who all want to be here instead of somewhere else.

Reddit went downhill when it because universally popular and enough people were there to attract jerks who just go where everyone else is and overwhelm moderation. So I don't want federation to become the standard, as other less popular options won't be there to attract the attention seeking jerks that are drawn to the popular sites.

Popularity ruins social media because the most popular place is where the worst tend to congregate and overwhelm moderation.

Spez isn't in charge

Parts are better, I like being able to block entire instances of troll users.

But I miss the constant barage of new content and a more active community.

I supose that I am still dealing with the aftermath of using Reddit for 8,5 years and suddenly dropping it even now after the better part of a year.

I am glad however that /u/spez isn't running things here, and I hope that he stubbs his toe hard once every 7-9 weeks for the forseeable future.

I have found that the Lemmy community as a whole seems to be quick with branding people fascist if they say anything even slightly less left than socialism in political discussions, though that has mostly been from Hexbear, so it is probably just a vocal minority.

The discounts you get when you stay at a Holiday inn

App and less bots

Reddit -> corporation, greed driven, you are but a product fır the advertisers

Lemmy -> software, community run servers, service provided by people for people no money incentive

It's way less addictive. Seriously, the last time I opened my Lemmy client was 5 days ago. Back when I was active on Reddit, I spent 3 of my waking hours on it every day, that's 21 hours a week.

Good third-party apps.

3rd party app support is probably my #1. Community is no different here than my 15 year experience on reddit, at least here there's less spam comments. My posts asking for advice or help here are also usually met with more productive support here.

Oh and no ads or sponsored content. I haven't even back to reddit since the exodus but before I left the sponsored content was so annoying.

I like them both equally.

Just my impression but there seems to be a slightly older crowd here.