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Much kinder than Reddit, people here know how to disagree and discuss things in a more constructive way.

Being able to comment and post without jumping through arbitrary hoops. No automod bots telling me I need 10 karma to post, no oops sorry not allowed to share external links to other websites, no oh no sharing pictures in the comments below post. Lemmy aligns with the principles of respecting user interaction on a technical level and not choking the life out of you with corporate TOS regulation.

Lemmy is not perfect. I am not really politically or ideologically aligned with a lot of the stuff the community as a whole is into, so being constantly exposed to the same themes and propaganda over and over gets a little grating. However I’m happy to deal and tolerate as long as I feel respected by the platform as a intelligent person using an open free as in freedom discussion fourm and not made to feel like yet another drone fueling a corpo content mill.

At first I liked that it was nicer and more intelligent but recently that hasn’t been true. My current favorite thing is that it is selfhostable and many users do it.

That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion, not just a few top meme-comments and a sea of ignored participation.

The Beans?

TBH it feels like a pretty continuous evolution of Reddit, Digg, and whatever was between Digg and usenet. There’s self selection that’s made it a bit more harmonious than Reddit, but that’s it.

That being said, it’s super cool to get a glimpse into the million different experiences people have had. The internet is a magical place.

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Lemmy culture? Nothing, lacks diversity. I often feel like I’m just talking to the same guy. Very rare to read views that don’t align with the groupthink.

EDIT: Okay, one thing that came to mind is that I can talk about autistic stuff that I do and nobody seems to question/judge it.

It’s a plus and a negative: how anti-fascist and anti-capitalist it is. I do think that it can go too far at times, but I just block those people. We should try to be less binary as that just isn’t what reality is like.

the big percentage of FOSS users, privacy enthusiats and the self-hosting community

I love that no one ever blinks an eye when I run naked through here. You guys are so cool!

Apologies for saying this, but if I’m being completely honest about it, it’s more of what I hate less about the Lemmy culture, than I do the Reddit culture. The lesser of two evils kind of thing.

On the plus side, it does seem like it has less corporate censorship than Reddit does.

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Alot of people are really helpful for any questions you might ask, as long as you are respectful

A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say