No and not really. Reddit is just past its expiration date. I believe Lemmy suffers from a lot of the same systemic issues and that will prevent it from becoming an actual long term solution. It's just the alpha version. It's better than the prototype, but it's still built on the same fundamentals and will likely suffer a similar type of failure.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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It is ultimately the same format which does not yield constructive conversation. The conversation is as though OP were speaking on a stage making their statement/announcement and then the audience yells back to them. It functions for some things, most notably sharing popular news - not necessarily journalism, just a glimpse through the eyes of the zeitgeist; dank memes are a form of good news by this definition. It does not function for discussion oriented conversation, since most people don't read the whole thread. The implementation of up and down votes manipulate conversational integrity in weird ways Though that will occur with any type of rating system, I believe the simplicity of the reddit style system yields conversational benefits that are less valuable than how cheap it is to implement. A cheap hack of a system will yield a cheap shoddy output. This leads me to believe a better method exists, we just haven't found it yet.
The emphasis on user control and instance freedom is novel and appreciated, but it has come with a reckless disregard for the dangers of the nowadays well understood echo chamber effect of current social media. There are zero safeguards to prevent Lemmy from shattering itself under any amount of external stress or internal corruption. Organized attacks are a major threat, and there is a nonzero chance of that happening.
Again, all of these are just like long term weaknesses in the structure itself. It doesn't mean it IS going to fail, it doesn't mean things can't be mitigated, I just don't trust that it will stand for a very long time nor will it reach the significance of reddit. Could be wrong, but it looks like Lemmy is capable only of moving around the problems with Reddit instead of being able to actively quell them.
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Left during the APIcalypse, largely only go back to help guide people to the fire exits.
No but Reddit sucks.
Left on the API troubles went back once or twice for warframe and other small comunities but been liking here much better. I engage with people in here. It doesn't feel like screaming into the void.
I just like lemmy more, I deleted my 13 year old reddit account
Just like what lemmy stands for. I still visit reddit from time to time, mostly to use it to search for real product feedback (the window for which it will be useful is limited) and for a few niche communities that lemmy just isn't big enough to get any traction with. I post very occasionally in said communities.
I use both while Lemmy's community is smaller. I yearn for a world with more small owners of the internet.
At the very least there's less "you should be supporting my sides' genocide and it's your fault my country is 'openly' evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well" on lemmy.
I like lemmy more. There is no real permaban on reddit btw. Iβve been βpermabannedβ like 20 times on there
I want lemmy to succeed. Sadly reddit has better shitposts
I never really used Reddit, but I read an article during the API debacle in 2023 that mentioned Lemmy so I gave it a shot.
After spending some time on Lemmy, I have a feeling that if I were to say anything is get banned. I made a meme of that screaming seagull saying, "Luigi!!!" That I want to post from my main. I just can't bring myself to go back. It seems pointless.
Yes.
Lemmy is my best friend now.
Got permabanned. I was one of the last protestors from the API stuff standing.
I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.
I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?
I like lemmy more.
I was never banned on Reddit (did get the boot from like 3 subs but that was in 10 years of redditing) β but I manually purged my account when I left.
I think so? I used to browse the site over breakfast, and one morning, Apollo couldn't connect. I don't want to cause trouble by trying to log in, if I'm banned, so I have not tried to log in another way.
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They gave me a tempory ban for bull crap so i deleted my 10+ year old account and moved here
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I came here when they made the API changes. I made the right choice. Rn Lemmy doesn't offer the variety and volume of content that Reddit did, but fuck those guys.
just left and haven't looked back, I'm not using the stupid default reddit app
I have already saved subreddits I liked on bookmarks, but after so many suspensions and bans for literally stupid reasons I had enough of this cesspool which is reddit and surprisingly I feel a lot better, I think reddit takes way more than it gives to anyone, I use lemmy moderately and that's the way things should be with anything, not sure I will ever get back on reddit again
Neither.
I like lemmy more, but it doesn't have as much daily content, so I use both.
Lemmy is 99% of what Reddit used to be for me. I still use Reddit for niche stuff, but itβs a solid replacement - especially since Reddit decided we had to use their substandard interface.
Fuck Reddit. Does that answer help?
Wasn't banned, just abandoned my account around 8 years ago.
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I have no idea how many times I was permabanned. But what turned me to Lemmy was that cuntrag Spez taking away my Apollo.
The 3rd party app change didn't sit well with me. Ended up stop using reddit on my phone entirely since native was horrible. Ended up coming here when the crackdown on "Luigi" was happening and other censorship that was questionable AF. The amount of content here obviously isn't comparable to reddit, yet, but it's enough to digest throughout the day on work poop breaks and whatnot. :)
Both, I'm sure I could make a new account if I wanted but I don't want to contribute to their dumpster fire of a website anymore anyway
Perma banned. Definitely Perma banned.
Funny how I went what thirteen years or something, being the same cranky old progressive I've always been yet the MOMENT the orange cancer takes office again and reddit kowtows to muskrat, I get permanently banned.
Karma like no tomorrow so apparently a lot of people agreed with me.
I still have a functional reddit account. But I only use it to view old posts these days as there's still a lot of useful info on reddit.