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First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you? (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago
  • signal to noise ratio

It feels a bit like how Reddit was prior to the digg exodus when overnight pun & lyric threads, ascii art and terminally shit one word responses appeared.

There is the awareness to the benefit of building slowly will bring, rather than having a an uncontrolled mass exodus, that risks little to no integration to the current curated culture.

  • Transparency

You can see who the mods are and a mod log and currently, people are giving time to grow the communities rather than welding power.

  • Quality content

It's not the same stories getting posted by karma farmers or by bots. It's more curated.

  • Interactions

They're more conversational than adversarial