Lemmy IS the alternative. I love the concept of the fediverse, and I prefer forum discussion over microblogging, so Lemmy was the obvious choice. Discussion is more meaningful here because people don’t race to comment a joke or pun just to farm upvotes. Comments also do not get buried here unlike on reddit where there’s no point in commenting on popular posts once they’re over an hour old because no one will see it anyway.

I don’t really like 4chan. I moved here from reddit when the whole API thing started because I did not like the way thri started treating their users (and even worst, how they treated their mods) and never looked back.

No social forum is without its zealous rule enforcers. Reddit at some point went past that straight into oligarchic authorianism. Or in less pretentious words, reddit mods were more and more often huge cunts.

Lemmy is more partitioned. Mods only get cuntish on topics they get invested in for now, which is normal, because they’re not robots.
It’s better to walk away from conflicts here and skip what doesn’t fit your views.

You’re really asking why people prefer Lemmy to 4chan? To 4chan!? Really?

4chan is a bit too racist.

I chose federated networks, not Lemmy per se. Right now I use:

• Firefish (Mastodon with a better kit)
• Kbin (Developing Lemmy alternative w/o problematic devs)
• Pixelfed (Instagram alternative, good except export tools lacking)

Federated is awesome because its more open and encourages choice, and I actually feel like there are friends to be made.

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I don’t want bigger. Bigger is half the problem.

I like FOSS and I like it don’t being easily censored…

I like owning my posts but I’m banned from Reddit so yeah that’s why I’m here. Besides 4chan posts get deleted after like a day or 2

I left Reddit because of mods in certain subs I frequented. It seems like they just decide someone broke a rule and you get banned from several subs at once with no explanation. I never had any warnings or contact with the mod team until after they banned me. I appealed to the platform and was accused of harassment so I deleted my account and never looked back. I was honestly shocked when it happened.

I spent some time Googling and settled on Lemmy because it had a familiar feel to it. I chose Mastodon because of its similarity to the old bird site.

I left reddit for Lemmy because 4chan, twitter, Facebook, etc are most assuredly not alternatives to reddit in the sense I am looking for. The only other alternative I might have chosen was Tildes, but it was (and still is afaik) invite only.

I like this format over any other besides maybe a good ol’ fashioned forum (like PHPBB).

I picked Kbin because the federverse is a lot better about icing out nazis.

4chan always was and Spez has made Reddit lightning rods for nazis.

I left Reddit because they killed my favorite app and theirs was trash.

4chan is a cesspool.

There’s not a lot of activity here, so you can’t endlessly scroll new content, but you see a lot of the same names in the comments, and that makes people seem more “real” than Reddit.