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.

You’re really asking why people prefer Lemmy to 4chan? To 4chan!? Really?

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 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.

4chan is a bit too racist.

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.

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

4chan is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, and I moved from reddit after 15 years.

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 left reddit for Lemmy because 4chan, twitter, Facebook, etc are most assuredly not alternatives to reddit in the sense I am looking for. The only other alternative I might have chosen was Tildes, but it was (and still is afaik) invite only.

I like this format over any other besides maybe a good ol’ fashioned forum (like PHPBB).

I think most people here left Reddit when Spez started the thing with the API and asserted his dominance during the protests. That’s when we learned it’s not our platform, but his. And he has a very different vision for the place.

People who properly like 4chan don’t really mix with other people. It’s for trolling, shitposting, sharing porn and gore amongst random stuff or shouting at each other. More anarchy than other places. And filled with incels and 14 year olds. I mean it’s a bit more than that and it has it’s unique culture. But there isn’t really an overlap with people who like places like this one. This is less anarchy, you can discuss your Linux server adminisration woes here without getting yelled at. Or share pictures of your crocheting pieces. Of course also memes and pictures.

So in summary: Where else would I be? I’m not 14 anymore and Reddit gave me the finger.

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.

I’m a 4chan anon and have been for a long time. It’s a Wild West situation still due to the anon culture. A LOT OF STUFF ON THERE IS EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE AND WRONG. Oddly enough I’ve interacted with some awesome anons and that’s what keeps me going back. Highly DONT recommend anyone check the site out.

Reddit used to be fucking dope when I joined in 2012. I was a Digg enjoyer in my youth and Reddit was even better for me. Over time the culture changed, not necessarily a bad thing either just different. Helped me a lot actually become a better more inclusive human. The Admins however have made a string of terrible decisions and I can no longer support the site. They hung the redditors out to dry and I’m so thankful for Lemmy for giving us a link aggregator with a comment section sans the bullshit.

I’m banned from Reddit. Something Something about violent language towards orange wannabe dictators idk didn’t really make sense to me.

Reddit’s CEO offends me, and I’ve heard bad things about 4chan too.