What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit?
Submitted 1 year ago by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to [deleted]
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Ranslite@feddit.de 1 year ago
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 year ago
[deleted]StephniBefni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s crazy, it knows where I live.
paradiso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
im scared
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
im just south of okotoks, kind of a small world out here.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Didn’t new reddit start having that? Never saw it except when not logged in mind you.
Localhorst86@feddit.de 1 year ago
It did, but it was a “premium feature” - paying users would have to “boost” a community to alow them to enable this feature.
Only when enough users boosted, the feature became available. And once that threshold was no longer reached, the feature would go away.
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Separate numbers for upvotes and downvotes.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also that up and down votes are not tallied on user profiles. One of the issues with reddit is that if your point of view is unpopular, you cant discuss it on subs that require X amount of karma. Eventually you will be downvoted into being unable to reply. Here, conversation is more open and accounts dont carry a scarlet letter.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty sure the downvote count has a limited effect on total karma. It was to counter downvote brigade from silencing people as you said.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This also seems to have the effect of people getting less salty at being down voted, on reddit I noticed the trend of people verbally expressing salt at even a single down vote editing their whole comment to go “and to the brainlet sheeple soyjack who down voted me I’d like you to know yada yada”
Here I notice less people throwing a verbal tantrum over the idea not everyone likes their opinion. Whenever I get the occasional down vote barrage at a spicy opinion I think “ah well can’t win em all, guess maybe my opinion might be a little shit” not “HOW FUCKING DARE YOU YOU TROGLODYTES”, well okay maybe its the second one 1/6th of the time for a few minutes I reserve the right to get salty at petty bullshit on Thursdays and Saturdays 7-3
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 1 year ago
I still remember when reddit disabled that. It was an useful data point, especially in hobby communities or other places where it can be difficult for newbies to judge the quality of advice/answers they’re receiving so I was thrilled to see it here on Lemmy. Going by upvotes alone is not always showing showing you an accurate picture of a community’s reaction to a comment.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It’s why I’m still furious about YouTube removing the dislike count. That single decision has probably led to lots more people getting scammed–and YouTube not getting my premium dollars I would’ve otherwise gave.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And the ability to turn off scores entirely! I run it that way most of the time. A post can have thousands of up/down votes but I can’t tell and it keeps it from infuencing how I’ll vote.
It was a feature I wanted to experiment with on reddit but couldn’t
DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 year ago
good People
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have app options to choose from!
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the biggest one for me.
At some point I stopped using Reddit on the web/desktop and just started to use it on my phone/tablet. I tried different apps, but settled with RIF. Every few years I’d try different apps, but always found my way back to RIF.
Reddit did a bunch of stupid things over the years, but I could happily ignore them and continue to use RIF.
When RIF went away I had to find a new app. The official app wasn’t going to work for me. Old Reddit on the phone wasn’t going to work for me.
Luckily there are plenty of Lemmy apps. I’ve settled on Voyager (wefwef) but Boost seems fine too.
Sure, the content has changed a bit, but it’s close enough.
For me a good app is key. Lemmy has good apps. I use Lemmy.
So many apps redesign themselves and assume I’ll get used to it. In actuality they cause me to wonder, “Do I still need you?” and start looking for alternatives.
That isn’t to say that apps can’t ever redesign themselves, but so many redesigns seem to follow the latest trend and don’t demonstrate a clear understanding of their users.
Akshay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Coming from an Apollo user, Voyager feels like home to me.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty much exactly my story. Went from RIF to Boost.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Of even if they do redesign, couldn’t they keep the old as an option? Why do they always throw out the baby with the bathwater?
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No advertising whatsoever; this was a thing on the mobile apps without paying. Nice it looks streamlined and less cluttered too.
PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I really like being able to edit the post title.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
you can ask for this feature directly to the dev, that what i prefer it to reddit
jacktherippah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Federation, no ads, so many third party apps, lil’ bit nicer people.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fewer users.
Once a site hits a critical mass of users the amount of content goes up and quality goes down. Once you reach that point it begins accelerating and turns the whole community to trash.Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
To be fair, this can be offset by sticking to smaller communities. All the large communities on reddit were low quality, but reddit’s large userbase allowed a lot of niche communities to exist with an acceptable amount of users. Lemmy (with its smaller overall user numbers) has much better “large” communities, but many of the niche communities barely have enough active users to get by.
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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Language, you can filter content by language you speak
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Edit title, If with my broken english and autocorrect, I write downs does anybody elses now about a boardgame for trees ? I can do a ninja edit without deleting the post
*Interaction with Mastodon (and the rest of the fedi), seriously, imagine being able to answer to a tweet from reddit, with Lemmy you can answer to a toot
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do trees play board games?
Nemo@midwest.social 1 year ago
Rather woodenly, but they’re always trying to branch out.
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paradiso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The community is more mature, less stupid pun chains (pretty sure those are mostly bots at this point), and less presence of interest groups (nefarious or not).
ettyblatant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well shit, I loved the pun chains!
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 year ago
It’s probably cause you look punny
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
Summer is never endless, I wonder when those things will arrive in the Fediverse and ruin everything
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The ability to block entire instances!
Right devs? Right?
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes oh yes please
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No u/Spez.
Stamets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A ghastly visage.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reported for NSFW. I didn’t want to see a horrible cunt in my feed.
/s (not the second half though)
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 1 year ago
zzzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
amiright?!
bizzle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not being a for-profit thing goes a long way toward improving user experience
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Little instances of rage bait, karma bait, horny bait and wholesome (fake story) bait
…for now
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
3rd party apps
Pratai@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A functional selection of apps.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 year ago
I can selfhost it
livus@kbin.social 1 year ago
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Federation
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Decentralized control
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Viewable moderation logs
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Absence of CCP army, Hasbara trolls, Russian trolls, corporate shills, etc
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Editable titles
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Hashtags
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Third party apps (on Lemmys)
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Publicly shareable/subscribeable multi-communities (on Kbin)
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Automatically remove inactive mods (Kbin)
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imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s pretty obvious people aren’t talking about apis that must be paid for that are ridiculously restrictively expensive
GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well for a start, Lemmy doesn’t, y’know, suck.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- no OF thots.
- no “this” or “unironically” type bullshit.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 1 year ago
On Memmy at least, the ability to mark posts as read so my feed always has fresh content.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Same as jerboa!
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A family of 5th generation inbreds exchanging chuckles over the odor of their piss. The conversation is narrow. The jokes are private. Real novelty is strictly forbidden.
Fresh is a funny way to put it.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sounds like you need to curate your feed.
willya@lemmyf.uk 1 year ago
ActivityPub
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Multiple communities for the same topic, but on different Lemmy instances. This is both good and bad (which c/ do I subscribe to?) but I argue its a pro more than a con.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A population of open-minded, free-thinking, laid-back people who like to explore strange new ideas.
Ha ha, no.
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Communism
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Real communism has never happened, except in Monsters Inc where the workers seized the means of production to create a better company from the worker to the workers.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Third party clients. Specifically alternate web UI’s like Alexandrite because if I’m being honest here, I think the comment nesting in Lemmy’s offical web UI lacks distinction which makes following conversations frustrating. Without Alexandrite I’d most likely be a mobile app (Voyager) user only.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
To those downvoting: save the downvotes for comments that aren’t productive, this is a pretty reasonable answer
The comment also highlights this same point. The different UI’s make it so that everyone can have an experience that they enjoy, mobile and web.
For example, we have these:
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
The topic specifically asks for features that are NOT availible for reddit.
nameasd@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
photon looks good, Are there any other ui shells?