@Em0nM4stodon That it offers a potentially community-run alternative to tech fascist walled gardens.

@Em0nM4stodon The humanity.

@Em0nM4stodon the people.

@Em0nM4stodon exponentially less nonsense and essentially billionaire proof.

@Em0nM4stodon the "interconnected villages" culture instead of a "one-size-fits-all town square", because:

• it nurtures human-size communities: I browse some instances' public timelines directly because I know there's probably good people there to discover. I wish this was a first-party feature, like Akkoma has "bubble instances"

• it simplifies the freedom of association: domain-blocking Fosstodon and a few other instances greatly improves the qualities of one's replies

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That I can re-read what I've posted and laugh at the content everyone else ignores.

@Em0nM4stodon chronological timeline and no algorithmic post recommendation

@Em0nM4stodon #cats #dogs #ceilingfans #umbrellas

@Em0nM4stodon no algorithms

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Good manners

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Imho the objective killer feature is the interoperability between the different types of services (Lemmy, Peertube, Pixelfed etc.), but people seem to barely use it. It would probably be a big deal on the commercial alternatives.

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That it feels Real

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It's foss

@Em0nM4stodon Getting my data and social networking on my own hands, running an instance and federate / defederate with any entity I want.