I think your experience highlights the main difference, the ability to leave an instance and disengage with authoritarian assholes without having to leave Lemmy. On reddit your only options are to leave or comply.

Yeah and they changed a bunch of my settings in the mobile app to shove their recommended garbage in my face again. I’m quickly settling on fuck Mozilla. Only my own laziness is holding me back from switching right now.

Those naked pictures of your mom

Mushrule. It was right there in front of your eyes. Also now I want a buttplug with a mushroom cap.