From purely practical point of view, what is the selling point of Lemmy for the average user who does not care about the theoretical benefits of software or the open source software movement?

Assumptions:

  • The average user will never host a instance.
  • The average user is not interested in volunteering or moderation.
  • The average user is not looking for NSFW communities or any controversial communities.
  • corroded@lemmy.world
    42·
    3 days ago

    The biggest difference I’ve noticed is that while Reddit may have a lot of large active communities, I would rarely get a quality response if I posted a question or a discussion topic.

    Here, I can post to a community that hasn’t had a new post in a few days, and within an hour I have several people offering help or discussion.

    Reddit is far more active, but Lemmy users are far more helpful.

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      I wonder if that’s because there’s a load of bored nerds waiting around to help people, lol

      • credo@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Maybe it’s a population bias thing. All the helpful people left Reddit for Lemmy. I.e., being helpful may be highly correlated to the set of ethics that drove those Redditors away in the first place

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I installed Ubuntu and have it all set up. It came with Gnome. But now I kind of wish I went with KDE. How hard is it to switch?