Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)

Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.

I get to see answer this question every month.

No karma means being able to post in any sub without having to have 100+ karma.

Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.

Spiritually. A sense of freedom.

Well the apps and interface is better for sure.

I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.

No ads, and generally more left-leaning.

Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.

It's calmer. Less clearly corporate interest promoted content. Less rage baiters. Less bots.

Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.

Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.

It's nice not having a shitty corporation actively and visibly screwing me.

There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.

I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.

lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.

I don't I'm just banned there. I would be fine with lemmy if there were more people here with specific tiny sub-comunities like reddit. hell, there arent even big fandom pages here...

Most of all: it's run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.

I've been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.

I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.

I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.

No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts

It's all open, we can participate in its development.

I've never really since I didn't have any reason to, although I regularly use it as a knowledge base since Lemmy cannot compete on that regard.

I like the idea of the fediverse so I thought I'd come here.

Also surveilance capitalism sucks ass.

Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.

Yes

Reddit banned my 10 year old account because they flagged it as a ban evasion account, stupid cunts.

I'm new to lemmy as a whole, So time will tell.

I haven't been permabanned over reporting a post and then fingerprinted such that my new accounts get insta-banned even through a VPN.

I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.

All ways.

I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.

Is the most concise answer "Every"? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.

My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.

Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.

It's small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.

Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.

On Lemmy I only follow news and informative stuff, and on here there's an emphasis on the things I'm already interested in (FOSS, Privacy, etc.)

I love chatting with people that are generally more reasonable and kind. Random viciousness seems absent here in my experience.

I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.

No ads and no corporate censorship.

Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations

i like piefed because it's not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there's fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo