To those downvoting: save the downvotes for comments that aren't productive, this is a pretty reasonable answer

The comment also highlights this same point. The different UI's make it so that everyone can have an experience that they enjoy, mobile and web.

For example, we have these:

• Uptime history at status.lemmy.ca
• Mlmym interface at old.lemmy.ca
• Voyager interface at voyager.lemmy.ca
• Photon interface at photon.lemmy.ca
• Alexandrite interface at alex.lemmy.ca

In all seriousness, all apps and frontends should to implement countermeasures (if they haven't already) so that you can turn off image previews as needed

Didn't new reddit start having that? Never saw it except when not logged in mind you.

Actually that feature isn't even that much abused So here is an useless gif

Also that up and down votes are not tallied on user profiles. One of the issues with reddit is that if your point of view is unpopular, you cant discuss it on subs that require X amount of karma. Eventually you will be downvoted into being unable to reply. Here, conversation is more open and accounts dont carry a scarlet letter.

I still remember how annoyed I was when reddit disabled that. It was a useful data point, especially in hobby communities or other places where it can be difficult for newbies to judge the quality of advice/answers they're receiving so I was thrilled to see it here on Lemmy. Going by upvotes alone is not always showing you an accurate picture of a community's reaction to a comment.

This is the biggest one for me.

At some point I stopped using Reddit on the web/desktop and just started to use it on my phone/tablet. I tried different apps, but settled with RIF. Every few years I'd try different apps, but always found my way back to RIF.

Reddit did a bunch of stupid things over the years, but I could happily ignore them and continue to use RIF.

When RIF went away I had to find a new app. The official app wasn't going to work for me. Old Reddit on the phone wasn't going to work for me.

Luckily there are plenty of Lemmy apps. I've settled on Voyager (wefwef) but Boost seems fine too.

Sure, the content has changed a bit, but it's close enough.

For me a good app is key. Lemmy has good apps. I use Lemmy.

So many apps redesign themselves and assume I'll get used to it. In actuality they cause me to wonder, "Do I still need you?" and start looking for alternatives.

That isn't to say that apps can't ever redesign themselves, but so many redesigns seem to follow the latest trend and don't demonstrate a clear understanding of their users.

To be fair, this can be offset by sticking to smaller communities. All the large communities on reddit were low quality, but reddit's large userbase allowed a lot of niche communities to exist with an acceptable amount of users. Lemmy (with its smaller overall user numbers) has much better "large" communities, but many of the niche communities barely have enough active users to get by.

you can ask for this feature directly to the dev, that what i prefer it to reddit

Well shit, I loved the pun chains!

Yep. This most basic aspect of Lemmy/KBin/MBin is its biggest advantage over Reddit. The fact that no one person, or company/organisation can ever own or control the entirety of the threadiverse is, to me, a huge factor in why I prefer it.

All centralised web based software like reddit is susceptible to exactly the kind of slow death Space Karen is inflicting on Twitter. Federation and decentralisation means that can never happen in the threadiverse.