First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you? (lemmy.world)

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Hey everyone, I’m new here and just testing the waters. I’ve been on Reddit for years, but lately it feels like a mix of heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers where any dissenting opinion gets buried.

For those of you who’ve spent real time on Lemmy: • What do you like better here than on Reddit? • What do you miss from Reddit? • Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

I’m curious how people see it — especially those who made the switch after the API drama.

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[-] serendepity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

        Cozy
Authentic
Lately, it feels like everything on Reddit is treated like a joke, and you see an endless string of puns and snarky comments. I like that you can have a serious discussion about a topic on Lemmy without it unraveling unlike Reddit.

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Yup. Lemmy is a bit more barren than reddit (at least when i was last on reddit), but the conversations you do have are genuine and not some lame joke.

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

we do get that a lot here though, snarky, canned oneliners for that upvote serotonin boost. But this bizarre phenomon wiht people pavlov'd into posting certain canned redditisms is much less

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