Just left reddit because I got tired of moderation and I do not agree with political views over all. I never tried 4chan because I heard it’s messed up and supposedly inject maleware on visitors like porn sites do.

As a person new to Lemmy, I just wanna know why you chose here and what you like/ dislike about there.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    27·
    8 months ago

    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.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        20·
        8 months ago

        They took steps to kill the app I used to access the site without providing a functional alternative.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        8 months ago

        Because Reddit is only remotely useful with apps and lied to, screwed over, and slandered all the app developers who made Reddit functional.

      • nac82@lemm.ee
        21·
        8 months ago

        Got banned for “report abuse” because I reported a pro genocidal comment on r/worldnews.

        They banned me from the sub then successfully petitioned Reddit to ban the entire account.

        If I can’t even report the genocidal content on one of their largest subreddits without losing my account, I’m not going to fit in enough to stay.

  • m105@discuss.tchncs.de
    17·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • Hello_there@kbin.social
    13·
    8 months ago

    4chan is a wholly different type of site. It’s an image board, not about link sharing. Use of screen names is discouraged.
    Also why would you go to a site labelled the asshole of the Internet if you’re looking for actual discussion and conversation. If you want porn or want nazi-adjacent discussion or great wallpapers, sure, go there.

  • DeepThought42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    From my experience 4chan is not a place for any sort of serious discussions. From what I saw there it’s about trying to shock, disgust, and/or troll people as much as possible.

    Reddit lost what little interest I had remaining when they announced they would be selling our content to train LLMs. To be clear, they were already on a downward spiral before then with their ever increasing focus on monetizing the platform as much as possible, but the “AI” business was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.

  • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • Leapingfro9@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      8 months ago

      Seems like you were disappointed on mods just like me. I am personally shocked to see you and I are the only one in thise post.

      • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Lemmy isn’t as big as Reddit yet, but I’m confident it will grow with time. I like the concept of the Fediverse and I’m starting to understand how it all fits together.

  • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I left reddit last year during the API bullshit. 4chan is full of cancer, and Lemmy is pretty much the next biggest community that I could find. I’m also on a couple of smaller sites like Discuit and Tildes.

  • Xirup@yiffit.net
    4·
    8 months ago

    I always wanted to be in the fediverse but I didn’t like Mastodon at all and Lemmy (or his alternatives) didn’t have almost no users… When the massive migration of users from Reddit to Lemmy happened, I took advantage of it and I’ve been here ever since (using other accounts).

    • Leapingfro9@lemmy.worldOP
      32·
      8 months ago

      But why did you decide to choose fediverse when reddit and 4chan are much bigger and popular? What did you not like about reddit and 4chan?

      • Xirup@yiffit.net
        2·
        8 months ago

        I have never liked 4chan because I consider the lack of moderation to be a very very bad thing, but honestly I have never used it nor have I been attracted to it, on the other hand, I used Reddit for many years and I consider it to be ok (leaving aside the API abuse and training AI with your users posts), but I’m on Lemmy because I like the open source philosophy and I tend to use exclusively open source software, and since Lemmy is an open source project I really enjoy being here. I always wanted to use Mastodon but as I said, I don’t like Twitter, so Lemmy is my paradise.

          • Xirup@yiffit.net
            2·
            8 months ago

            I find it difficult to give an opinion on this, on the one hand I consider that it should not be easy to be a moderator but on the other hand I remember cases of certain communities (r/JusticeServed) where the moderators were corrupt and accepted money in exchange for banning someone from the sub, or tried to hide certain posts that did not suit them, and that seems to me to be complete bullshit but not all subreddit’s mods are like that and you can not judge like that.

            I guess Lemmy’s advantage in this case, is that because of the nature of the fediverse it is more difficult for that to happen, but it can happen.

            • Leapingfro9@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              8 months ago

              It is something I need to figure out on my own but what is moderation like here? Similar to reddit? Are mods paid or volunteers?

              • Xirup@yiffit.net
                1·
                8 months ago

                I think on Reddit most mods were volunteers, those who were paid were the admins.

                And so far I haven’t encountered any problems with moderators personally although not long ago there was a problem with a community (c/shitposting) where some unscrupulous users started to upload child pornography (CP) (another term is used but I don’t remember) in the comments as images and that sucked because Lemmy unlike Reddit has no automatic post deletion tool (like bots) or enough moderation tools (as I have read from some moderators) and you must consider that the instances are maintained by people like you and me without any legal backing, if I have an instance where I federated with you and someone uploads CP to your instance, that CP will be in my own instance and that can have serious legal consequences for everyone. and besides, since moderators are volunteers they can’t spend all day checking every post and comment because they have a real life out there.

  • treechicken@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    Lurked on reddit for years before quitting altogether bc the mobile app was hostile and web was basically gated off. Then was exclusively read-only on Hacker News and Lobsters for a while until I realized I didn’t want to think about only tech all day and now I am here.

    I think the nice thing about Lemmy for me is the size. It feels active enough that it’s not dead but not so big that I feel compelled to just stand and watch on the sidelines.

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      3·
      8 months ago

      reddit, and indeed the entire internet, is most active in my off timezone. I would always open a thread with an idea for a reply that ended up being the top 5 comments with a billion updoots.

      The fediverse is still small enough that I can drop bombs and have actual discussions that aren’t trying to be memes.

      • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yea some people complain about the lack of content and yes this is slower, but you can actually have a discussion with another human being.
        This post is 8 hours old, your reply is 5 hours old.
        On reddit, there would be it’d be filled by one liners, puns and various inside jokes.
        Joining a thread this late was like casting a bottle to the sea, knowing it’d be lost in the void.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    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).

  • danhab99@programming.dev
    3·
    8 months ago

    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

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Was looking for something similar to Reddit where links can be shared and voted. I also wanted a more general instance hence why I’m on lemmy world.