Do you prefer Lemmy or reddit?

Lemmy is almost perfect, we just need more users here. a new alternative is piefed, greatest point is that you can combine sublemmys from different instances into communities.
- Be careful what you wish for. Some might consider "more users" to mean a huge influx of assholes and normies.
  Or maybe more friends idk.
- Those "communities" are called "feeds" in PieFed and "sublemmys" are called "communities".
  That's also coming to Lemmy btw: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5601

Still hard to ditch Reddit entirely, there’s just too much valuable content on there.
But accessing Lemmy via mobile app is darn near perfect, and feels a lot like early Reddit. Just need more active users.
- feels a lot like early Reddit. Just need more active users.
  Which will, ironically, ruin it.
  
  There was a point at which reddit because so big as to fundamentally change. Call it 'when regular people joined reddit.' But that's not what ruined it, it was reddit itself capitulating to shareholders.

Reddit died for me when they killed the API. I hear it's only gotten worse.
- I wouldn't know. I haven't been back since and I couldn't care less.

I liked what Reddit used to be, but I refuse to support the platform now.
I like what Fedi stands for, but it can't - and might never - replace all the small niche subs I used Reddit for. But I'm still here to try and push for a platform that no CEO can enshittify.

For now, Reddit. Not because its good, but because Lemmy still doesn't have enough users to fufill its use case unless you want to talk about politics or IT-type tech. Hopefully, that will change in the future. Once a few of the semi-niche communities like Dota 2, painting, cats, or city-based communities takes off, I can hopefully stop going back to Reddit.
Lemmy and the Fediverse have a stronger foundation, but without a userbase, its kinda pointless.

No. Reddit was better in almost every possible way with just few exeptions. I'm simply too principled to go back and I see Lemmy as the only viable alternative.
- Totally agreed, I haven't touched reddit in years but the diversity of people and options is what made Reddit so fun. After using Lemmy for a few years I can't imagine it ever getting to where Reddit was.

2 years on Lemmy now since API made me realize Reddit was going full enshittification and censorship. Lemmy has grown a lot and my mobile client, Boost(which came over from a Reddit client), makes it so enjoyable it makes up for many things.
I dearly miss r/NBA and r/Wallstreetbets users for being able to make me laugh so much but maybe with time Lemmy will grow there.

Prefer, overall Lemmy, but probably not by as far as others here.
I like the large user base of Reddit. There's more or less everything and anyone (fields/groups). You could search for something on the internet and limit yourself to Reddit to get higher quality results. Lots of users for lots of years.
On the other hand, Lemmy feels more or less just like one subreddit. You can come here, talk about Linux, programming and privacy even in most unrelated communities and people will just catch on no-problem. But outside that, it's quite empty.
That's users. Technology I have issues with on both sides.
Centralized media can get huge and stable, but also enshittify and shut down at once. However, there is no decision making in server picking, and all content is just there, immediately available in one place.
Lemmy has issues. Federation is interesting, but doesn't work as I'd like. One instance shuts down, yes, the content remains scattered around other instances, but not all of it on each instance, it won't federate anymore between the remaining ones, and as instances keep shutting down and popping up, it eventually dissapears.
What I'd hope for is torrent like copying. New instance joins in and begins synchronizing from all other instances to load balance between them. Once that's done it fully comes online and synchronizes new content on the go.
But that also has issues. It doesn't scale. Maybe the data could be split between the instances with some redundancy, but I am not sure how to do that well, and how should it be retrieved on demand quickly and efficiently.
Plus, how to make sure the data still remains the same. I don't mean at the time of instance death, but before. Let's say boykisser.webp is stored on ServerID69 and ServerID420. ServerID420 dies and ServerID80085 decides to keep redundancy and copy it from ServerID69, but the expected hash doesn't match and the image is now gone. This could probably be solved in larger network by just having far more copies, and I just invalidated that like how one person doesn't kill a torrent.
But that's not how it works. Not even the list of instances and communities is federated like that. Best bet to find communities is going to lemmy.world and searching for it there. And with federation bots, we get back to low scalability.

Lemmy by a mile. Questions asked here return helpful and helpfully funny responses. Reddit brings out the moronic hoards. That said, I use libreddit to browse some subs that aren't as big here. But only briefly and I always shower afterwards.
- I agree 100%. If I want help with something, people are generally kind and helpful on Lemmy. The worst that typically happens is no one responds.
  On Reddit, asking for help in a sub specifically created for these requests usually results in being downvoted heavily. I might get a response or even a few, but it's not uncommon to also get mocked and trolled unless my request is unusually interesting.
  I recall being in a tough spot in a previous relationship and asking for advice. I got some helpful advice but it also resulted in one user mocking me and encouraging suicide and another user attempting to dox me.

I prefer imgur tbh

I am literally unable to use reddit, so...
They are hellbent on permabanning all their users and using advanced fingerprinting to prevent them from ever using reddit again.

The one thing I miss from reddit was the ability to disable inbox replies.
- What do you mean, like the notifications or no direct messaging at all? Also if it isn't available here, you could verify if it is available on Piefed, which would just have you accessing the same content from another client. Aka you would still see your comments here, but if that feature is important to you maybe they have it or are building it. I don't know much about the project other than users mentioning some features they were looking for existed there. (And some instances on Lemmy are building instances there)
  
  It stops replies from showing up in your inbox... I know reddit has notifications but I use old. layout so I never saw them.
  
  They like to shitpost, but don't want notifications of people replying to disagree with their shit posts. I'm grateful there isn't an option to turn off reply notifications as it means you can't isolate yourself from your posts' consequences.

Reddit. I'd never use Lemmy.
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Lemmy feels sometimes almost like the old internet, with all the random niche communities and interesting people. I dont want to even remember reddit exists.
- same and I wish there were a few more people.

Lemmy. Don't have a Reddit account, let Reddit die

The threadiverse tech is better (Lemmy/Piefed/MBin etc) and it is a great feeling to know I'm not getting tracked and profiled by big tech or inundated by ads, or force fed ragebait via an algorithm I neither want nor need. The users are better, mostly, although I have noticed an uptick over the last 3 or 4 months of reddit-style dickheads being dickheads - but I can just block them.
Niche content will come I think. If the threadiverse can resist the self-defeating drive to 'grow at all costs' and just let it organically grow, more people will come but a lot more slowly. But of course that will bring a change in the user culture too. Its quite nice being somewhere with low to no tolerance for right-wing shit.
As for Reddit, I don't have an account any more. My main of almost Digg migration antiquity was deleted when Spez shit the bed over the API thing but I'd been on Lemmy prior to that anyway off an on. My alt got deleted about 6 months ago when I realised I hadn't used it for months. If I absolutely have to visit a sub I use a front end.