What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit?

Third party client support. Specifically alternate web UI's focused on desktop like Alexandrite because if I'm being honest here, I think the comment nesting in Lemmy's offical web UI lacks enough distinction to be useful on desktop (its clearly optimized for mobile browsers). Following conversations can be frustrating on desktop. Without Alexandrite I'd most likely be a mobile app (Voyager) user only.

Edit: No, third party web front ends for reddit do not work anymore. Remember those pesky API changes that went into effect in July and were the entire reason the majority of us are on lemmy now? Yeah, that didn't just kill off third party mobile apps.

Separate numbers for upvotes and downvotes.

No advertising whatsoever; this was a thing on the mobile apps without paying. Nice it looks streamlined and less cluttered too.

I have app options to choose from!

good People

Public viewable Mod Log

Defederation of Bad Instances.

Fewer users.
Once a site hits a critical mass of users the amount of content goes up and quality goes down. Once you reach that point it begins accelerating and turns the whole community to trash.

Federation, no ads, so many third party apps, lil' bit nicer people.

I really like being able to edit the post title and the 6 hour top sort. Although I would like 3 or 4 hours even better.

• Language, you can filter content by language you speak

• Edit title, If with my broken english and autocorrect, I write down does anybody now about a boardgame for trees ? I can do a ninja edit without deleting the post

• Interaction with Mastodon (and the rest of the fedi), seriously, imagine being able to answer to a tweet from reddit, with Lemmy you can answer to a toot

The ability to block entire instances!

Right devs? Right?

Not being a for-profit thing goes a long way toward improving user experience

The community is more mature, less stupid pun chains (pretty sure those are mostly bots at this point), and less presence of interest groups (nefarious or not).

Little instances of rage bait, karma bait, horny bait and WhOleSomE (fake story) bait

...for now

No u/Spez.

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3rd party apps

A functional selection of apps.

I can selfhost it

It's pretty obvious people aren't talking about apis that must be paid for that are ridiculously restrictively expensive

• Federation

• Decentralized control

• Viewable moderation logs

• Absence of CCP army, Hasbara trolls, Russian trolls, corporate shills, etc

• Editable titles

• Hashtags

• Third party apps (on Lemmys)

• Publicly shareable/subscribeable multi-communities (on Kbin)

• Automatically remove inactive mods (Kbin)

Well for a start, Lemmy doesn’t, y’know, suck.

Pride

On Memmy at least, the ability to mark posts as read so my feed always has fresh content.

Multiple communities for the same topic, but on different Lemmy instances. This is both good and bad (which c/ do I subscribe to?) but I argue its a pro more than a con.

ActivityPub

Communism

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• no OF thots.
• no “this” or “unironically” type bullshit.