Just left reddit because I got tired of moderation and I do not agree with political views over all. I never tried 4chan because I heard it’s messed up and supposedly inject maleware on visitors like porn sites do.
As a person new to Lemmy, I just wanna know why you chose here and what you like/ dislike about there.
You’re really asking why people prefer Lemmy to 4chan? To 4chan!? Really?
nice answer, exactly what I feel about 4chan 😆
now is this the hacker 4chan or his brother?
Does anybody know why the Chans named their kids 4 & 8?
Are those names more common where they are from?
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I left Reddit because they killed my favorite app and theirs was trash.
4chan is a cesspool.
There’s not a lot of activity here, so you can’t endlessly scroll new content, but you see a lot of the same names in the comments, and that makes people seem more “real” than Reddit.
4chan is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, and I moved from reddit after 15 years.
Why did you leave reddit? Mind sharing?
They took steps to kill the app I used to access the site without providing a functional alternative.
Because Reddit is only remotely useful with apps and lied to, screwed over, and slandered all the app developers who made Reddit functional.
Got banned for “report abuse” because I reported a pro genocidal comment on r/worldnews.
They banned me from the sub then successfully petitioned Reddit to ban the entire account.
If I can’t even report the genocidal content on one of their largest subreddits without losing my account, I’m not going to fit in enough to stay.
I don’t really like 4chan. I moved here from reddit when the whole API thing started because I did not like the way thri started treating their users (and even worst, how they treated their mods) and never looked back.
Were you a mod?
yes, I was
4chan is a wholly different type of site. It’s an image board, not about link sharing. Use of screen names is discouraged.
Also why would you go to a site labelled the asshole of the Internet if you’re looking for actual discussion and conversation. If you want porn or want nazi-adjacent discussion or great wallpapers, sure, go there.From my experience 4chan is not a place for any sort of serious discussions. From what I saw there it’s about trying to shock, disgust, and/or troll people as much as possible.
Reddit lost what little interest I had remaining when they announced they would be selling our content to train LLMs. To be clear, they were already on a downward spiral before then with their ever increasing focus on monetizing the platform as much as possible, but the “AI” business was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.
4chan is a bit too racist.
I left Reddit because of mods in certain subs I frequented. It seems like they just decide someone broke a rule and you get banned from several subs at once with no explanation. I never had any warnings or contact with the mod team until after they banned me. I appealed to the platform and was accused of harassment so I deleted my account and never looked back. I was honestly shocked when it happened.
I spent some time Googling and settled on Lemmy because it had a familiar feel to it. I chose Mastodon because of its similarity to the old bird site.
Seems like you were disappointed on mods just like me. I am personally shocked to see you and I are the only one in thise post.
Lemmy isn’t as big as Reddit yet, but I’m confident it will grow with time. I like the concept of the Fediverse and I’m starting to understand how it all fits together.
I like FOSS and I like it don’t being easily censored…
I left reddit last year during the API bullshit. 4chan is full of cancer, and Lemmy is pretty much the next biggest community that I could find. I’m also on a couple of smaller sites like Discuit and Tildes.
I prefer open source software and was really glad to see that Lemmy was a thing. I tried it about a year before the whole Reddit API debacle went down and left because there was just too few users at the time, but then when the Reddit API thing happened, I came back, deleted my Reddit account, and have been here ever since. I was a moderator on a sub, and now I moderate a community here. !t_mobile@lemmy.ml because i enjoyed the discussions on /r/tmobile.
Lurked on reddit for years before quitting altogether bc the mobile app was hostile and web was basically gated off. Then was exclusively read-only on Hacker News and Lobsters for a while until I realized I didn’t want to think about only tech all day and now I am here.
I think the nice thing about Lemmy for me is the size. It feels active enough that it’s not dead but not so big that I feel compelled to just stand and watch on the sidelines.
reddit, and indeed the entire internet, is most active in my off timezone. I would always open a thread with an idea for a reply that ended up being the top 5 comments with a billion updoots.
The fediverse is still small enough that I can drop bombs and have actual discussions that aren’t trying to be memes.
Yea some people complain about the lack of content and yes this is slower, but you can actually have a discussion with another human being.
This post is 8 hours old, your reply is 5 hours old.
On reddit, there would be it’d be filled by one liners, puns and various inside jokes.
Joining a thread this late was like casting a bottle to the sea, knowing it’d be lost in the void.
I like owning my posts but I’m banned from Reddit so yeah that’s why I’m here. Besides 4chan posts get deleted after like a day or 2
They are all platforms that allow a variety of political views, as opposed to Xitter, which has taken to suspending the accounts of civil rights advocates.
Reddit’s CEO offends me, and I’ve heard bad things about 4chan too.
that’s a Moot point
