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It has support for 3rd party apps.
Here on principle for the 3rd party apps.
I realize the hardware and software cost money for a site. I’m ok with paying either by a friendly use of ads, or a decent subscription.
I was on the verge of starting to pay for Reddit to stop the ads when I used the website. I happily paid for my 3rd party app. But that was right when Reddit nerfed the subscriptions and went to their current version. And then stopped the API.
I happily paid for the Lemmy 3rd party app. I need to look into donating for the server.
Lemmy doesn’t have u/spez, so it’s already infinitely better
It also has you too which is cool.
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It actually does (don’t know which instance), but I doubt it’s the same person.
At least not as an expensive leech at the head of the whole thing. He probably earns more on his own as what every single instance collects in donations.
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No fucking ADS
Simple, it’s open source and distributed, and that’s what matters.
Agreed. :)
A social network/online community can either be significantly profitable or healthy for its users. Pick one
in a nutshell, it’s made for people, not for money
I can see real upvotes and downvotes.
This again?
Accessibility is a big plus. Reddit is opposed to 3rd party apps while their official app is appallingly stuttery and feature-incomplete.
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.)
(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. > This is exactly the thing. The moderation and deleting/banning stuff that deserves to not be removed. Just censorship like this. Idc if posts actually are bad I just want to be able to see them and decide for myself.
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.
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.
Because I can just use it. Reddit doesn’t even allow me to do that without using their shitty app.
It’s not reddit. I’m all for choice and alternatives. Plus, I support the underdog.
