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.world is basically reddit. Sometimes I wonder why they left. Everywhere else has a delightfully different vibe.
Reddit is bigger, so it's more diverse and less hateful. But behavioral patterns are the same imo.
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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
Systematically the same. Different weight shift (views and interests). Smaller userbase also makes it a bit different, but will become more similar with more users.
Lemmy is full of tankies and Linux nerds. It's a different kind of toxic to what you'd experience over on Reddit.
I've been trying to figure out if there are fewer bots here. I think there are. If there's any substantive difference between the two that's it.
Reddit's conservatives were marginally smarter
The difference is the type of people who are drawn to Lemmy are more technical, computer savvy
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 feel like people are nicer to each other on here, but maybe it's just the communities I subscribe to.
I think it is distinct though I am still sorta new here, I have noticed a lot more tankies as well.
I've never seen anybody ponder any orbs on reddit
I joined, hoping that it is way less censored than reddit. Is that the case? Nowadays you can’t say shit in the “social platforms” if it hurts someone. I want to be able to say what In think and read what others have to say even if it hurts my feelings / views.
I want to be able to say what In think and read what others have to say even if it hurts my feelings / views.
I promise you, after two days moderating an actual large discussion forum, you will implement sweeping rules about who can say what about who. The only places people enjoy chatting anymore are places that are moderated.
We can complain about youtube and facebook taking down messages critical of power or corporations, but places like Lemmy are managed by people. It's not censorship, it's going into someone's house and abiding by their rules. It's a whole other topic if what you want to read/say is popular enough that you can find someone's "house" that centers around that topic and is also large enough to have meaningful interactions.
And if you're looking for debate, that shit is dead.
The fact that every community is now insular and bubbled echo-chambers is a result of human tendencies, we gave people total freedom on the internet and instead of using it to learn more and include more people in more conversations, our instincts turned the place into a curdled honeycomb of walled-off communities which were ripe for the plucking by corporate interests.
That’s very unfortunate. I deleted my Facebook account a decade ago because it was flooding me with superficial stuff from people that i didn’t care about. I stopped using Twitter as soon as Musk bought it, it was shit before that too. Deleted Reddit a couple of days ago because it is impossible to say anything that the moderators disapprove of. Maybe lemmy will be the next thing to delete
I think a big problem is we aren't really sure what we're looking for in social media. We see things that give us satisfying dopamine boosts and want more of it, but also feel the hollowness of it. It's exactly like eating processed carbs when you're starving. You end up addicted with cravings for more even as the stuff you're consuming makes you sick.
I was there for the start of it all, I've seen the space evolve over the decades. I was out in the pioneering days championing free discussion and moderating huge communities. I love reading someone debating an idiot more than anyone arguably, I get the same sense of satisfaction seeing groups connect and share great ideas and jokes.
But I also know the pleasure gained from that kind of community is as contextual as it is fleeting. We are not the same people we were when we first read some chain-post replying in stupid memes until it got so absurd we're laughing so hard we can't breath and we're waking up our housemates. We're just not "that people" anymore. Even the younger people now are living in a different time, we are so desensitized to imagery and text on a screen that it won't ever have the same impact on us, but it doesn't stop us from looking everywhere for a hit of the ol' drug.
It's growing one. The dislike of bots and one-liner posts seems like it could actually stick around as a form of etiquette, although it's too early to really say. A lot of readers will remember the poop post a couple years on, too, which counts.
The political bent and heavy tech-orientation are just a reflection of who the early adopters (and devs) are. Ditto for any extra civility or insight on the part of the people posting.
one-liner posts
I feel like Ask Reddit is at fault for that one. They changed their rules to have the entire question fit in the title. Before that, you were allowed to have the question expanded upon in the post.
Not sure if you remember/were around for it, but I think this was in a response to AskReddit titles being a story followed by a question instead of just a question.
E.g. dear reddit, today my dog killed my flowers. What's a time you were emotionally devastated?
Don't see why you couldn't have limited to a question in the title and allowed story time in the post though
That's an interesting question and one that's worth exploring. Reddit certainly has been the source of many homegrown memes, common retorts, and witticisms used across the web. But here, you can try switching to Linux. Download various distros for free and try out combinations of release cycle, built-in apps, and desktop environment to find your favorite.
Yes, as much as I dislike the increasingly moralist culture on there, it still has a bunch of great contributions, if you care to sift through the awful interface. Sadly it's got achievements now, which in my experience were so far confined to games. It's not something I want popping in a corner of my monitor completely unprompted while I am trying to focus on an insightful comment. Not the kind of thing you get with free software... my last experience with Linux was Fedora 20-something, one which I aim to reiterate now, fifteen years later, that Wayland has improved to the point of letting me use my hardware to its full potential (drawing tablet, multiple monitors, etc). I've already installed Mint on my wife's laptop, which she enjoys very much (because it gets out of her way), and I think I might go for Fedora again for my workstation later this year, or maybe Manjaro, who knows.
Sadly it’s got achievements now
What did I miss? Does Linux has achievements now??
Reddit does
Oh, okey. Yeah, I can live without that too.
It is the same.
Big communities suck.
Small communities are great if you are part of the in crowd, if not it sucks.
Mods suck.
Admins really suck.
The content is the same, just a day behind.
It is the same.
Yet we scroll and enjoy it.
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