Y’all are way nicer.
Not always; Fuck you. I wish you the best.
If this were Reddit, it would been way worse. It’s all relative.
If this were reddit, they’d just be reported and banned.
Well, I’m a mod, so if this were reddit, anyone not laughing at the joke would be banned.
Everyone here isn’t a smug dick who thinks they’re a fucking comedian, trying to one-up you, or splitting hairs over pedantic bullshit like it proves something.
I’d like a smug Dick Tracy. Amirite!
Really community dependent.
[email protected] is well, casual.
Of course politics and news communities are something else.
The views expressed are more to the left and much more anti big-tech, which makes sense. Discussions are a bit more civil on average and there seems to be much less blatant karma-farming. At least that’s the case on my instance, which blocks some of the more… controversial ones. Speaking of which though, the differences between various instances do shape discussions on Lemmy quite a bit, which Reddit of course doesn’t have. You can often have a pretty good guess on a user’s attitudes, political views and demeanor just by looking at their instance.
Not like you can even farm “karma” here in the first place. Lemmy doesn’t have karma I’m pretty sure.
Depends on the instance
Don’t worry. Someone corrected me in the same fashion. I just don’t look or care and everything is fine.
To be fair you were correct, Lemmy doesn’t. That’s an mbin screenshot above and I’m not sure how they work out the numbers there.
Edit: it’s all nebulous anyway, it can only count things since the creation of their instance.
I was wondering. But does total up votes actually count for anything algorithmicalky like how it is on reddit? I don’t think so on Lemmy right?
its really only useful for spotting trolls/spam accounts quickly.
Ooo ooo do me next! I have zero idea how I’m doing, but I haven’t been banned anywhere. I think lol
Much more politics, much more to the left, most people seem to actively look for reasons to get offended.
Yeah, reddit definitely wouldn’t allow me to sprinkle politics everywhere I go like lemmy does. I think that’s partially a result of low engagement and trying to build viewer base, though. Once the satellite communities can kind of survive on their own they will start purging that shit.
I have adhd so I just post trying to get engagement. I like to have 100 different distractions that I can engage with if I get bored.
I’m offended by that.
Jk. I agree. People here seem to want to misread in the weirdest ways just so they can sound off.
I can’t say I agree with the last point. Making a comment on Reddit is a dice-roll of which logical fallacy someone will attack you with. You could say “I like waffles!” and you’d instantly get a reply saying “Oh, so you think pancakes are shit then???”
It makes it genuinely difficult to have a even a mild conversation there.
Once I came here, It took me a few months to “detoxify” after using reddit for years. Reddit was bad, but got that way slowly enough that I didn’t realize it until I came to Lemmy. It was like the internet version of PTSD. I’m not as hyper-defensive as I used to be.
Reddit… Reddit? That was a while ago… huh, I have trouble recalling a previous life…
You may have blocked it out as a defense mechanism.
Mentioning Windows in a poaitive context vs Linux results in al.oat crucifixation. /s
Most people are more polite here
Most of them are left leaning to various degrees so despite the infighting we’re all still on the same team.
fuck you and your opinion! /s
No real user complains about political leanings. Literally the only complaints i see in the most random places is “how liberal everyone is” which is objectively deranged. If anything this space is incredibly conservative and I’d like for you to prove me wrong
Lemmy.world ended up being the default instance for everyone hopping from reddit, so it’s quickly become more akin to reddit than other servers. Not to mention the tankies have migrated to lemmy.ml (developer run and explicitly marxist / tankie instance), lemmygrad.ml (marxist tankie 4chan instance), and hexbear (tankie communists that were isolated / defederated by choice for a while. They started federating and many instances blocked them for trolling. Full of trolls). I went to lemmy.ca but lemmy.world blocked me for being a bot, which I am not, so I had to make a new account because the admins never bothered to respond. Also lemmy.world admins have been going kinda crazy / heavy handed with the moderation and many people on other servers are rightfully upset with them
[email protected] for people curious
What a tragic tale of woe.
Tankies are basically conservatives, it’s easy to mix them up
Eh, there’s Horseshoe Theory at play there. While some people rail against the idea, I think they’re forgetting that political stances should mostly be modeled along 3 axes, not just the one. It’s just that the ‘average’ range of political stances tend to follow a horseshoe-shaped pattern within those 3 dimensions
There’s nothing good that comes out of dictatorships.
If you want less freedoms for individuals then that is a right wing ideology.
Individualism is a right wing ideology dawg
People are more genuinely interested in actually contributing to a conversation here and likely to read through your stuff/reply. I feel more seen.
Reddit is a generic corporate algoritm flavored slop with LLMs with an agenda talking to human morons somehow dumber and less aware than the LLMs. Lemmy is at least mostly human but has a personality archetype bias that takes getting used to. Even on niche communities here theres a high likelyhood you’re talking to someone whos either a left leaning political activist, is really into alternative gender identity politics, knows a lot about information technology/STEM, has some serious kinky fetishes, is neurodivergent, or a mix of the above.
So you have the conversational pitfalls that come from talking to tech nerds, liberal arts students, the loud and proud members of lgbqt+, tankies, and all the in between relatively outcast groups that didn’t fit well on reddit in the first place. Every 1/10 post on all is going to be about how fucked the climate change is, lgbqt rights, femboys, trump/elon/conservative republicans doing something stupid or evil or facist, a really unfunny ‘meme’ thats really about spreading some message or showcasing how victimized X minority group is, why linux is good and windows/microsoft bad, some half baked plan by young political activist who think they can overthrow a global corporatocracy with some clever cordinated consumer protesting. At least its consistent.
As someone who doesn’t really identify with most of these im left feeling lemmy isn’t for me sometimes but its a decent enough social outlet that I can tune out the stuff I don’t care for while being involved with the niche communities im actually here to be part of.
It feels wrong to hit the “block” button for something I’m simply not interested in, but ever since I started using it to curate my home page, the content has become more relevant to me. Personally, I never had the patience to get into coding, so I block communities about it. I have nothing against it, and I love that coders have communities they can take part in, but blocking that topic means more space for things I like when scrolling through All.
I think Lemmy’s still in the process of maturing. I would love to see the kind of niche communities that Reddit has, where the topic of the sub is oddly specific yet not polarizing. I even have an idea for one that can provide some of that energy, but I’m trying to save up more content for potential posts before taking the leap to create it.
I know you’re complaining, but I think you just described a good chunk of the reasons why I like Lemmy and the fediverse in general.
It wasn’t really my intent to complain but rather inform the OP with how I see Lemmy and which kinds of people make up a good portion of the overall community that contribute to conversations after being here for quite some time. I dont think I whinged or went on a opinionated rant that really catagorizes as complaining.
Your presence here as someone who doesn’t identify with those groups brings tremendous value to this space. Your perspective is different and you might encourage others like you to join.
Thanks Feathercrown I greatly appreciate you for saying that! 😎
Things are smaller and more intimate (in that I can recognize more usernames).
I’ve blocked more users here than on Reddit though. Mostly just users that are annoying/spamming/give me really weird vibes. Actually, I don’t think I blocked any users when I was on Reddit.
You can tell that Lemmy houses Reddit refugees…and some of them are refugees because they were completely banned on Reddit, and likely deserving, lol
I block people because I have a lower tolerance for trolls/assholes. Maybe they could blend in with the crowd on reddit, but here, I’m just not gonna put up with their shit.
My mom is the target of a significantly smaller proportion of the community here.
Here at Lemmy, we have respect for mothers.
I bet your mom is a nice lady.
A lot less conversations about whether ChatGPT was an asshole at his cousin’s wedding
Not quite as many leading experts in their field.
The braintrust is starting to build, we can now have a whatisthisthing community, but you still don’t get to say “exoornithological engineers of Lemmy, in your opinion…”
If you’re used to the weird wackos being the gay hating bible thumping gun fucking Republicans, they’re basically not present here. They’re replaced with the “Mao did nothing wrong” crowd.
There is less bandwagon posting here. “this” chains and so forth.
Cross-posting or doing [email protected] doesn’t happen as often as it did on Reddit.
Oh here’s a big cultural difference: Lemmy mods tend not to be as anal about their community formats as Reddit mods are. I got a 14 day ban from r/whatisthisthing for telling an anecdote related to the thing in question, because it wasn’t STRICTLY about identifying what the thing was. “Which community is this, what are the norms, what is the expected format etc” is not as much of a concern here. Lemmy communities aren’t art projects.
No one here is important or official. There are no video game community managers or anything like that here. Lemmy is not used for interacting with anyone other than fellow idle nerds.
No one here is important or official. There are no video game community managers or anything like that here. Lemmy is not used for interacting with anyone other than fellow idle nerds.
This is how Reddit was before it exploded in popularity and companies and celebrities started taking it seriously. I don’t know if Lemmy will ever get to that point, especially seeing how much abuse people will endure before they change platforms.
Eh, on Lemmy, users can really easily switch to a home instance that isn’t doing that, so it’s a little more self-correcting.
Other important point: we already have homeservers that federate with shitholes like threads or hybrids like bluesky. Lemmy is just one way of displaying AP protocol content. From that perspective it is basically ungovernable, which is cool if you ask me. ;)
There are less women here and that’s really saying something
Technical spaces tend to be created and dominated by boys. Even now this is a nascent endeavor for nerdy people. Naturally there’s gonna be less girlies here.
I think it’s because we here in the technical nerdy spaces know the value of a cooties shot…
I think A LOT of people here are women, trans, nonbinary, etc. the part of cwm pretty sure is a bit lower than everywhere else.
The important distinction in the fedi is: nobody cares what your gender is because it does not matter in the slightest.
Okay buddy
How do we know how many women are here?
How they’re treated when they make the mistake of bringing up any trouble women face at all.
I never comment on posts >100 comments. They’ll never get seen. Here? There’s a good chance to reply.
Agreed! I’m actually hoping no more people leave Reddit. I like the community here so much better. For sure, there’s some trolls and echo chambers, but it’s mostly a pretty good place.
