No "total karma" for accounts.

No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.

Seeing downvotes as soon as there's at least one is so cool to me. Very small detail, but it makes a pretty big impact.

Relatively tech literate user base

Feels more intimate. It's actually kind of all the things I liked about reddit: small community, sort by new. I'm kind of addicted already 😬 it's a plus that we have a chance to see what it becomes. That's the best part imo. I been here only a few hrs, but I feel apart of something. Reddit is a bit disconnected sometimes, especially on larger subs.

Alot of reddit posts ended up being just really dumb nothing posts, but here it seems like the more engaged type crowd for now.

That you're not walking on eggshells.

My username/account was deleted when I (deservedly) berated a racist-sexist-homophobic guy. My comments were removed but his hateful posts remained.

So hopefully we won't get biased and power-tripping admins and mods here.

Much less cluttered UI. Very friendly communities.

I like the DIY feeling of Lemmy, feels like old Reddit when I was a teenager. I also weirdly like the fact that because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I have an incentive to post and comment and upvote and actually engage

The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.

Unicode characters in display names.

Immediate comments without needing to refresh. Things are just immediately showing up, which makes it feel so alive

i love being able to see individual upvote and downvote counts. the nuance is actually very important

It feels way more community focused. There's a distinct lack of corporate influence, which is great.

Ooooh we can edit titles?

Way fewer bots. I don't think I realized how bad reddit was.

so far at least there are no constant annoying automod filters like 'this title needs to be 250 characters not including spaces, have a [i'm a dumbass] flair, etc etc'

it does nothing to improve the quality of anything and makes the whole UX more annoying. on r/gonewildaudio there's like a paragraph of flairs

When you sort by "New" it kinda refreshes in realtime.

Feels more like old school forums instead of conglomorated shitpost: meme response, ironic response, [deleted] spam response bot response

Better UI

Clean and faster UI. old.reddit is good enough, but outdated.

You are not called an orc if you disagree with whatever The Washing Post or other USA state media says.

The smaller community.

I remember when the top post on Reddit had 10.000 upvotes... Today you can't interact anymore, just "consume".

Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc

The friendly community

I'm happy I won't have to deal with seeing subreddits named _____porn, like DesignPorn. So immature and cringe