Aside from the now federated instances.
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The main difference to me is the lack of a profit motive, which is the primary driver of enshittification. The federation helps harden it against things like abusive admins, since it’s dead simple to jump ship to another instance in that case, but honestly that’s pretty secondary to me.
Less obligations, no ads and better apps. Everything else is either the same or worse.
The one difference that’s significant is the fediverse can’t die the way reddit died.
Maybe it can die a different way, but it won’t be that way.
The two communities are vastly different, in size, mentality and number of bots.
Not really. More politically far-left than Reddit is (and more political just in general, actually), but other than that Lemmy is more or less the same when it comes to how its users act and treat each other.
and more political just in general, actually
Yeah, that’s pretty much the only part of Lemmy I really don’t like. It feels drastically more political than Reddit did. I didn’t even know what the hell a tankie was before I joined Lemmy.
I still don’t know or care lol. This place feels way further left though so I’m about to stop trying it out even though i don’t want an echo chamber.
As long as you’re not in one of the famously shitty places like lemmygrad, it’s pretty politically normal. So, extreme extreme extreme left by American standards. Like “we shouldn’t actively fuck our citizenry in the ass and maybe even help them” levels of left 😱
But do keep away from lemmygrad and whatever the other shitty ones are.
