Lemmy by a light year. I was mostly a lurker without account on reddit but browsed it (too) many years. When I made an account only once a comment I made gained engagement, and it turned into a cesspool so disgusting devolving into religious arguments and such, fortunately I didn’t noticed until days later. The comment I made was about how you should spay your pets.

So yeah after that I closed my account, then left after the api debacle. (And started lurking here) but recently created a lemmy account so I could filter the political content out, and I contribute to a project I believe in.

I also like that I feel that I’m actually talking to real people here, and there’s no algorithm, no tracking, no corpo influence.

2 years on Lemmy now since API made me realize Reddit was going full enshittification and censorship. Lemmy has grown a lot and my mobile client, Boost(which came over from a Reddit client), makes it so enjoyable it makes up for many things.

I dearly miss r/NBA and r/Wallstreetbets users for being able to make me laugh so much but maybe with time Lemmy will grow there.

The main things reddit has going for it is more people, and better SEO.

Privately owned for profit orgs are extremely vulnerable to enshittification.

I am literally unable to use reddit, so…

They are hellbent on permabanning all their users and using advanced fingerprinting to prevent them from ever using reddit again.

I liked what Reddit used to be, but I refuse to support the platform now.

I like what Fedi stands for, but it can’t - and might never - replace all the small niche subs I used Reddit for. But I’m still here to try and push for a platform that no CEO can enshittify.

No. Reddit was better in almost every possible way with just few exeptions. I’m simply too principled to go back and I see Lemmy as the only viable alternative.

Lemmy by a mile. Questions asked here return helpful and helpfully funny responses. Reddit brings out the moronic hoards. That said, I use libreddit to browse some subs that aren’t as big here. But only briefly and I always shower afterwards.

Lemmy is almost perfect, we just need more users here. a new alternative is piefed, greatest point is that you can combine sublemmys from different instances into communities.

For now, Reddit. Not because its good, but because Lemmy still doesn’t have enough users to fufill its use case unless you want to talk about politics or IT-type tech. Hopefully, that will change in the future. Once a few of the semi-niche communities like Dota 2, painting, cats, or city-based communities takes off, I can hopefully stop going back to Reddit.

Lemmy and the Fediverse have a stronger foundation, but without a userbase, its kinda pointless.

Reddit died for me when they killed the API. I hear it’s only gotten worse.

Still hard to ditch Reddit entirely, there’s just too much valuable content on there.

But accessing Lemmy via mobile app is darn near perfect, and feels a lot like early Reddit. Just need more active users.

Prefer, overall Lemmy, but probably not by as far as others here.

I like the large user base of Reddit. There’s more or less everything and anyone (fields/groups). You could search for something on the internet and limit yourself to Reddit to get higher quality results. Lots of users for lots of years.

On the other hand, Lemmy feels more or less just like one subreddit. You can come here, talk about Linux, programming and privacy even in most unrelated communities and people will just catch on no-problem. But outside that, it’s quite empty.

That’s users. Technology I have issues with on both sides.

Centralized media can get huge and stable, but also enshittify and shut down at once. However, there is no decision making in server picking, and all content is just there, immediately available in one place.

Lemmy has issues. Federation is interesting, but doesn’t work as I’d like. One instance shuts down, yes, the content remains scattered around other instances, but not all of it on each instance, it won’t federate anymore between the remaining ones, and as instances keep shutting down and popping up, it eventually dissapears.
What I’d hope for is torrent like copying. New instance joins in and begins synchronizing from all other instances to load balance between them. Once that’s done it fully comes online and synchronizes new content on the go.

But that also has issues. It doesn’t scale. Maybe the data could be split between the instances with some redundancy, but I am not sure how to do that well, and how should it be retrieved on demand quickly and efficiently.
Plus, how to make sure the data still remains the same. I don’t mean at the time of instance death, but before. Let’s say boykisser.webp is stored on ServerID69 and ServerID420. ServerID420 dies and ServerID80085 decides to keep redundancy and copy it from ServerID69, but the expected hash doesn’t match and the image is now gone. This could probably be solved in larger network by just having far more copies, and I just invalidated that like how one person doesn’t kill a torrent.

But that’s not how it works. Not even the list of instances and communities is federated like that. Best bet to find communities is going to lemmy.world and searching for it there. And with federation bots, we get back to low scalability.

Reddit. I’d never use Lemmy.

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I prefer imgur tbh

The one thing I miss from reddit was the ability to disable inbox replies.