Not the same. More like a second cousin, once removed.
I actually think it’s way more like 4chan than reddit.
Niche threads are small handful of people every time, people feel pretty safe to get nasty really quick, and wild mix of people thinking it’s their safe space full of people that agree with them entirely from anarchists to fascists.
Also likely to see a random porn or furry post.People are all the same everywhere.
Yes and no. To me it feels like going from one subreddit to another. It is different? Yes. That much different? I don’t know, maybe, like going from a big city to a town without leaving the country.
I dont think we’re a bunch of angry 16 year old white boys who worship musk and jbp so no we’re not the fucking same
Yes, we have way higher percentage of neurodivergent people here and I love it.
The Westerners are slightly/somewhat less imperialistic, which is great. Also, people are visibly not as intellectually challenged.
No ads, no tracking, that’s exclusive to Lemmy and I would like it for that alone.
People (aka, in Reddit language, ‘content’ or ‘the stuff we write but they earn money with’) are the same everywhere, I mean assholes and nice guys are not exclusive to any platform. There are just a lot less of us here than on Reddit. So, there is a lot less noise.
Plus we have decent filtering tools, so we can even have less noise ;)
Lemmy is tiny compared to Reddit and the niche communities I’m interested in are not very active but I don’t care. I will keep posting here and not on Reddit as long as they won’t change what I disagree with (which won’t happen).
Lemmy is how Reddit was in 2010. Size is what degrades the experience, the larger Reddit got the more shit it became. I am hopeful that federation will be the secret sauce that saves Lemmy from the same enshittification as it grows.
Less alt right stuff here on Lemmy than there was back in 2010, though. Early Reddit was full of libertarian ideals and free speech absolutists, before the consequences of those positions became apparent in the later half of that decade.
It was around Trump’s first presidency that half of Reddit realized the other half of Reddit wasn’t just memeing, the alt right went to their safe spaces, and Reddit began purging itself of all that was not marketable (good and bad).
The paid agents probably don’t consider the Lemmy communities big enough to invest time polluting them most of the time, it’s just not cost-effective.
I’d argue earlier. Before the largest digg exodus. 2010 already had custom subs and supported some niche comms
Similar but distinct. Much further left for one thing.
Also, the average level of tech knowledge here is off the charts. Like I feel like a caveman and in my office I’m the one people to go through for help. Never felt like that on Reddit.
fellow in-between, how can we describe ourselves? the one that everyone comes to for tech support (eg we know how to ctrl+v) but around actual programmers we just stare blankly.
I tried to create an account on db0 and the application wanted to know my favortie OSS creator or something, I just told them i have no idea what that means but I’ll be nice. if we had a word for what we are, I’d have used that!
I didn’t use Reddit towards the end so I might be a bit wrong but overall it feels a lot more likely that you will bump into the same people on here. Its nice that you don’t really get your karma farming GallowBoob types.
The misogyny on here seems more intense though even if the mods and admins are more on top of it.
seems alot less here, unless your trying to go to female communities to tell them otherwise.
Most of it tends to be where a woman will mention experiencing something disproportionately, as a woman, and there will always be a man in the replies saying that men experience it to.
There is a recurring thing on poor consent towards women’s bodies too, particularly whenever SWers are mentioned. That’s more of a carry over from Reddit though.
Hey, men experience disproportionate things, too. Like privilege.
Fairly different hivemind here, I think. Still annoying at times but for different reasons. Individuals seem more likely to engage on a topic though. Maybe without instantly thinking you’re their enemy.
“hivemind” is such a stupid bullshit concept. the only people who use it just don’t like being disagreed with. if you use the term “hivemind” you might as well be a reddit conservative
It took me a bit to understand this. I was so used to expecting negativity that i thought non-negative comments were bring sarcastic.
significant less astroturfing from right wingers, and bots+ less pressure of the constant threat of reddit and subreddit moderations.
your battling against people brigading, baiting you into argueing so you get reported.
It’s a child of Reddit.
It grew up learning some good habits and some bad, it continues traditions it didn’t start, but it runs it’s own household with it’s own traditions, and is building upon the values it’s learned.
Much less “trying to be the funniest person in the room” energy
