• livus
    15•1 year ago

    • Federation

    • Decentralized control

    • Viewable moderation logs

    • Absence of CCP army, Hasbara trolls, Russian trolls, corporate shills, etc

    • Editable titles

    • Hashtags

    • Third party apps (on Lemmys)

    • Publicly shareable/subscribeable multi-communities (on Kbin)

    • Automatically remove inactive mods (Kbin)

    • @MimicJar@lemmy.world
      11•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.

  • @Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    39•1 year ago

    • Language, you can filter content by language you speak

    • Edit title, If with my broken english and autocorrect, I write down does anybody 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

  • @PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOP
    43•1 year ago

    I really like being able to edit the post title and the 6 hour top sort. Although I would like 3 or 4 hours even better.

  • @imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    18•1 year ago

    It’s pretty obvious people aren’t talking about apis that must be paid for that are ridiculously restrictively expensive

  • ChainweaselEnglish
    45•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.

    • FubarberryEnglish
      15•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.

      • Uncle
        1•1 year ago

        im just south of okotoks, kind of a small world out here.

          • Uncle
            2•1 year ago

            yeah i seen your other comment. still kinda funny to me tho. I use a vpn router, multi wan, so not really too worried.

          • Zonen-RANSLITE
            6•1 year ago

            It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

            OK, less magic than expected.

            • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
              9•1 year ago

              There have been tools to generate little images like this that people have been sticking inline in forum posts for decades. Literal decades. The world has not yet caught fire because of that, either.

              If you’re old enough, you’ll remember seeing oodles of people’s forum signatures containing a smiley face holding up a sign containing something like this:

    • OtterEnglish
      45•1 year ago

      In all seriousness, all apps and frontends should to implement countermeasures (if they haven’t already) so that you can turn off image previews as needed

      • @Localhorst86@feddit.de
        23•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.