How is Lemmy better than Reddit?

Buttflapper@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 300 points –

I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I'm curious, how it's better?

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When people say Lemmy is better, they mean the software and the platform are better. You’re talking about the users of the two platforms. Lemmy users are still idiots, just like Reddit users, we just use Linux and don’t use chrome

I still use Chrome for work.:-(

I use Firefox for everything else:-).

Same, literally can't use Firefox (though i got an exception to install it) its blocked system wide from being able to access anything. Idk why the company hates FF so much.

Maybe bc it blocks ads? :-P (More likely to reduce their costs of having to test everything on any non-Chrome browser.)

Yeah, given the state of the internal tech, it's very likely the latter.

It does things very differently, and many webpage designers hate it with a passion - I don't know of the details why - despite how it is a successor to Netscape Navigator, open source, and a competitor to the monopolistic Google's Chrome. Maybe there are reasons for why it does what it does even, but it alienates people who enjoy the simplicity of just making pages work on Chrome, and then anyone else be damned.

Yeah kinda like the old days where internet explorer was the default standard lol.

(Who the hell would downvote this comment - IE deserves to be made fun of at every opportunity!!?!!:-P - and within minutes too, you might have a stalker:-D)

Sigh, yes those were the days. The bad old days. Chrome Google was supposed to be our savior but...

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Lol I wouldn't be surprised if I did, posting anywhere with politics involved doesn't usually end well :P

IE was hot garbage, I was quickly a Firefox fan (I remember version 3 being a huge release haha) but yeah tons of sites were broken on FF at the time.

Chrome was generally faster and more reliably loaded, plus the IE view extension I THINK didn't require admin rights like firefoxes did :P so I drifted to Chrome for a long while.

Back on Firefox tho, really glad they're still around haha.

Edit: Made me think about the old ACID tests

Similar, though halfway made the switch to Firefox sooner, at least on a mobile, and still nowadays have to use Chrome more on a desktop. For one thing, it supports multiple profiles better, which is mandatory for managing two work emails that both use Microdick's Outlook.

It is really annoying though, like how it always checks in with home base despite opting out, and how I have to force close it every time I'm done with it or else my phone gives me warning messages about it using up too much battery, even if I haven't used it at all that day (hence why I've taken to force closing it).

But... no ads, and that wins:-). Also open source, so it's got a strong base, just I wish it was implemented more than a little better, which is probably a harder ask than I give it credit for, so I am glad that it works as well as it does, with everything wanting to kill it off.

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