With Lemmy - I can block whomever is bothering me and I will not see their posts ever again. I can see their notifications and they somehow can keep responding to me (which ought to be worked on). But erasing their existence on my end should be a thing when you don’t want to deal with them.
Lemmy and other federated spots, allow me to make posts that I would otherwise get faulted for if I tried them on Reddit. Like on AskReddit, they don’t like it when you ask a question and try to put something in the message body for clarification or it gets removed.
So you have to spend time making another comment to clarify with the possibility of it not being understood anyways because hey, hindsight users.
The karma system on the fediverse does not necessarily impact how much you can post and where you can post. Probably one of the big differences between Lemmy and Reddit for example. If you had negative karma on Reddit, good luck trying to post anywhere because you’ll get nagged with Captcha systems.
And good luck posting anywhere you’d like on different subreddits because they’ll just outright remove your posts automatically because an arbitrary karma count wasn’t met and no subreddit is transparent about it.
Misskey is microblog compared to Lemmy or Kbin , but still it’s fun to use albeit more demanding on resources. While Kbin/Lemmy see karma as numbers, Mastodon (main branch) as likes, Misskey have emoji’s so you can convey your feelings without making short replies.
Sure some people will say that’s dumb or useless, but hey when you see some art and having only ❤️ instead of 🆒 or :cool__i: or :otoge_rank_aaa: and so on.
There is many other neat features but the main point of this comment is.
You can join in on conversation without restricting yourself to limitations imposed by soft/server one use.
Add on top that you can self host which is not for everyone but people having their whole identity tied to their own space instead of Twitter/Youtube/Twitch etc.
Which would be true if Misskey wouldn’t send error and deny me sending message, so we still far off in that point.I use the Catodon platform and it’s such a fun UI!