Was originally thinking of posting Lenmy content on Reddit to less directly advertise Lemmy, but in the communities I follow, its almost exclusively content or already posted to, or directly originating from Reddit. This got me wondering if there were any niches that Lemmy serves better than other, larger platforms.
Plenty of people don’t like it, and plenty of them block it all out… but love it or hate it there is a lot of communist and anarchist discussion here. I was on Reddit for a long time and never found so many people interested in leftist discourse so far outside of the liberal mainstream.
Star trek memes
Trash political takes, communism, anarchism. That’s it mostly
Non mainstream opinions. Anything outside the extremely small overton window on Reddit is immediately hidden, deleted or downvoted. Lemmy has far more diverse opinions, and I also believe that it leads to more interesting discussion. I enjoy being in the same room with people who don’t share all my opinions. I find it more interesting and engaging.
Linux content
That is more of a con than a pro
I feel you, man. Like, I appreciate what Linux is for, but the Linux content here is extremely blind to the average user’s use-case. It makes it hard to take suggestions and input seriously.
My OC shitposts
and mine
And my ax?
Cue the obama giving himself a medal meme but the comments are much more intelligent and there’s a much better conversation to be had
Piracy, Linux, Self-Hosting, Anarchism
For me, more real users.
I mean, I don’t think lemmy has 0% bots, but its probably much harder with manual application approvals.
Also, Federation makes censorship harder, but also allows defederation to stop bigotry.
For me, it’s not about having good content that is not on reddit, but avoiding all kinds of bad content that is on reddit. I can scroll through the “top of the day” list of my subscriptions in a relatively short time and find many posts that I enjoy or that interest me. When I used reddit, there was always so much noise, ragebait, clickbait, sometimes interesting questions with only bland answers, etc.
I like that on Lemmy there are more human-like posts and no advertisements. Hated scrolling through Reddit ads then getting sneaky ad-like posts from ‘people.’
Beep Boop, Am Human.
Hello, fellow human!
I hope your day has been full of the various human things, such as eating, and sleeping. Certainly I have been enjoying those things; as a human, I get plenty of sleep and food and other human things.
I’m a big believer in the Pareto Principle where 20% of the users are responsible for 80% of the content.
Lemmy is Reddit’s Top 20%.
Smaller community but still decent throughput
And if you’re into it, everyone is a leftist.
I also think that if you want to build your own community it’s easier in Lemmy than Reddit
One thing it doesn’t is fucking ads that are the majority of the content on bullshit like instagram
There’s a much higher ratio of real humans to bots in most Lemmy communities.
For technology, sexuality, and socio-politico-economic discussion it’s as if Lemmy “stole” the users most the most developed perspectives.
However, all the problems are still present. Users still perpetually struggle to discern their right from left. And, there’s certainly at least a few mainstream mods that’ve their self-worth entirely contingent upon others agreeing with them.
