In theory as far as I can see Lemmy is heading for Reddit 2.0, which is way worse.

In my eyes, currently:

  • Mods are abusing their powers, as usual.
  • Lemmy. World is acting more like a company by day.
  • Some instances block VPN and Tor.
  • Federation is kinda of not that perfect right now.
  • I guarantee that not a single instance will defend their users privacy.

So… That bring me to my question, Why would anyone who can use Reddit, use Lemmy instead?

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Some counter points:

    • I’m not seeing a lot of mod abuse here. I’m sure some occurs, but generalizing it to all or most mods is a gross exaggeration. And aside from that, it happens on Reddit too, worse from what I’ve seen. So it’s still not as bad here.
    • Again, I’m not seeing lemmy.world acting like a company (whatever that even means). You know what is a company, and one that sells it’s data and flagrantly shits on its users? Yeah, Reddit.
    • Some instances block VPN and Tor? Okay. If you say so. That’s not a big concern of mine personally. At least Lenny instances didn’t go to war with their users, mods, or API developers.
    • Federation doesn’t need to be perfect. It’s still better than a closed system in principle, even with its flaws.
    • That’s a bold claim about no instances defending their users privacy. Where’s the proof? Either way, at least all or most of them don’t seem to be aggressively selling their users data to AI company as training material. So they are still better than reddit even if assuming they don’t defend user privacy.

    Side note: reading the title of this post gave me a headache. But I know sometimes it’s easy to over-edit and have text get away from you. Or maybe English isn’t your primary language.