From purely practical point of view, what is the selling point of Lemmy for the average user who does not care about the theoretical benefits of software or the open source software movement?

Assumptions:

  • The average user will never host a instance.
  • The average user is not interested in volunteering or moderation.
  • The average user is not looking for NSFW communities or any controversial communities.
  • corroded@lemmy.world
    58·
    2 months ago

    The biggest difference I’ve noticed is that while Reddit may have a lot of large active communities, I would rarely get a quality response if I posted a question or a discussion topic.

    Here, I can post to a community that hasn’t had a new post in a few days, and within an hour I have several people offering help or discussion.

    Reddit is far more active, but Lemmy users are far more helpful.

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      231·
      2 months ago

      I wonder if that’s because there’s a load of bored nerds waiting around to help people, lol