No ads. Accessibility, server choice, no ads, no corporations to worry about stealing your data.

1. It's open source and grants me the opportunity to participate.

2. It's distributed (federated) and not just one company making the choices for me and all of us.

3. No ADs, gamification and nagging me to buy in-game currency.

Yeah, and it has an usable app.

I think the most important aspect to me is 1) the freedom it provides me with. I don't like all my communication being in the hand of big tech companies.

Lot less bloat

Reddit feels like a weirdly dead place. Depending on the sub, there can be a lot of posts and comments but it's very hard to engage with. You need to comment early and what conversation there is decays very early. A lot of it is fake too, with bots stealing comments to repost.

It's a little bit better on smaller subs, but Reddit has a way of funneling everything into a larger subs if there is one for a topic, so outside of niche topics they tend to be ghost towns.

Lemmy is more like a small, weird forum. It's hardly perfect but at least it doesn't feel like a bunch of chat bots talking to each other.

Reddit wouldn't always let me say what I wanted. They would block/shadowban/mute me. Which I realized is inherently wrong in a society that intends to be a democracy.

So I hope Lenny is better in that regard. If I say something I don't want it taken away. I want it to have a chance to be challenged for what it is.

Once I realized this, I considered how many other probably healthy opinions that never got seen because mods, rules, restrictions and probably also financial and political biases ruined their chances of being challenged and seen in the first place. If only specific opinions are allowed, the whole site is inherently biased. I don't like that. I bet that would explain the dumb stuff I've seen there. Because if nobody can challenge an opinion it will never grow.

it load faster

So first, these things are why Lemmy is better for me. Obviously, to each their own.

• Lemmy supports different apps, like Reddit used to.
• I’ve experienced less spam on Lemmy.
• Lemmy is full of Linux nerds, like me.
• Lemmy has fewer Nazis in my experience. I do understand that there are instances full of Nazis, but I don’t see their posts.
• Lemmy is open source. I like open source.

Custom clients

No profit motive.

Less astroturfing

Free from corporate interest.

No ads masquerading as posts.

I don't need any other reasons, that's enough.

1. Open source
2. Federated
3. Community driven and ran
4. I hate supporting and being fucked in the ass by corporations

I think if the population was just slightly smarter and less submissive then more people would use and support open source software. I don't even mean lemmy, just OSS in general

The top comment of this post would be some reposted for the 8000th time "inside joke" on reddit. For me, it didn't matter what the post was about, every comment section was the same. It was especially frustrating when the post itself encouraged conversation and the top comment would be completely off topic.

Third party app support. Love Sync for Lemmy, Photon and Voyager.