What does Lemmy do better than Reddit?

austinngo@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 181 points –

Just found this space, I'm trying to play around with this platform. Can anyone help to explain?

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Somewhere along the way, I learned that for a village to thrive, the creative people (the artisans, the musicians etc) must move in first, they form the roots, then the rest of the village follows them.

The creative people moved from Digg to Reddit. That's what made Reddit Reddit, not the brand, or the UI, or some genius exec.

The creative people have mass migrated to Lemmy, & hence Lemmy will thrive. How do you know - see where og memes originate. Genius is not the domain of AI, & hence Reddit is Deaddit. We're now just waiting for the rest to follow.

I've yet to see artists migrate here. The artists started on DA, Newgrounds, YT, Tumblr, etc. The professionals moved to Twitter.

Reddit started from geek & tech culture, not creatives. Its ability to foster discussion extended well to not just techies but to everyone. Most creatives I've seen shy away from Reddit.

Creative people in the Reddit/Lemmy village are the geeks & intellectuals

This makes sense. I wonder if it's different now, since reddit has became such a big platform.