What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit?
Submitted 11 months ago by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to [deleted]
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Ranslite@feddit.de 11 months ago
otter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
[deleted]StephniBefni@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s crazy, it knows where I live.
paradiso@lemm.ee 11 months ago
im scared
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
im just south of okotoks, kind of a small world out here.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Didn’t new reddit start having that? Never saw it except when not logged in mind you.
Localhorst86@feddit.de 11 months 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 11 months ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Separate numbers for upvotes and downvotes.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
good People
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have app options to choose from!
MimicJar@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Coming from an Apollo user, Voyager feels like home to me.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty much exactly my story. Went from RIF to Boost.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
I really like being able to edit the post title.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
you can ask for this feature directly to the dev, that what i prefer it to reddit
jacktherippah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Federation, no ads, so many third party apps, lil’ bit nicer people.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
How do trees play board games?
Nemo@midwest.social 11 months ago
Rather woodenly, but they’re always trying to branch out.
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paradiso@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
Well shit, I loved the pun chains!
MrShankles@reddthat.com 11 months ago
It’s probably cause you look punny
Scrollone@feddit.it 11 months ago
Summer is never endless, I wonder when those things will arrive in the Fediverse and ruin everything
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The ability to block entire instances!
Right devs? Right?
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes oh yes please
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No u/Spez.
Stamets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A ghastly visage.
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
zzzz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
amiright?!
bizzle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not being a for-profit thing goes a long way toward improving user experience
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Little instances of rage bait, karma bait, horny bait and wholesome (fake story) bait
…for now
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
3rd party apps
Pratai@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A functional selection of apps.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 11 months ago
I can selfhost it
livus@kbin.social 11 months 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 11 months ago
It’s pretty obvious people aren’t talking about apis that must be paid for that are ridiculously restrictively expensive
GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well for a start, Lemmy doesn’t, y’know, suck.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- no OF thots.
- no “this” or “unironically” type bullshit.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 11 months ago
On Memmy at least, the ability to mark posts as read so my feed always has fresh content.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Same as jerboa!
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
Sounds like you need to curate your feed.
willya@lemmyf.uk 11 months ago
ActivityPub
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
A population of open-minded, free-thinking, laid-back people who like to explore strange new ideas.
Ha ha, no.
mojo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Communism
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
The topic specifically asks for features that are NOT availible for reddit.
nameasd@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
photon looks good, Are there any other ui shells?