We all have that one feature, the thing that makes you never want to go back to Reddit. Curious to hear what yours is.

    • poop@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been putting off using lemmy because I didn’t really understand how it all worked. Finally made an account last night to get acquainted. It’s super cool. Wish I had started sooner.

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, decentralisation has a lot of downsides. It’s definitely a barrier to entry for new folk. But at the same time, it has the single most important killer feature available, and that is that it’s can’t be controlled by a single profit driven corporation.

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    No ads.

    Incredible range of customization and third party app options.

    If I need to go on new Reddit for something, I get exhausted by all of their bs very quickly

  • rossman@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    It’s low key and has a slightly higher barrier to entry. This weeds out a lot of people that can’t bother to try. People here seem level headed

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    for me, it’s the niche communities that i used to enjoy on reddit and lemmy has in abundance.

    my niche communities on reddit used to follow r/politics, r/socialism, r/chapotraphouse, etc. and lemmy was created by like minded people.

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “Killer feature” is silicon-valley-invrstor-ROI-speak. The fediverse is designed in opposition to central platforms funded by investors looking to make a profit.

    I don’t want to go back to reddit because they abandoned third party clients and made another few decisions that made me mad. Lemmy today is - objectively speaking - worse than reddit was circa 5-7 years ago. The user numbers aren’t the same, the way the fediverse is connected reactions aren’t as snappy and the search function is way worse. If I judged this on “killer features” I might be tempted to go back to reddit. I tolerate the shortcomings because I believe centrally operated platforms have a high tendency to enshitify as soon as they realize they need to make money.