Everyone just talks about Reddit and Linux. Also people are just generally jerks on here. I don't comment much because I just see people getting dragged for not being as knowledgeable as others.

The political opinions of the average Lemmy user are a lot more radical and the users themselves come off as a lot more arrogant than the average Reddit user.

Which is honestly shocking to me because I thought Redditors were bad. I block any community that is about politics or users that try to inject politics where it isn't pertinent.

People here are way to eager to get into political arguments out of nowhere, usually in bad faith. The front-page is covered with doomscrolling content, being here too long makes me miserable and hopeless. The rest of the content is mostly tech stuff, which can only be interesting for so long.

What I miss from Reddit, is the variety of diverse communities, people having fun and polite conversations, a sense of humor, and a lot of happy content or stuff that's interesting but not limited to tech.

At this point, I feel like the technology is much better and the user base much larger, but the user group is so extremely specific.

I wish people from all political spectrums would engage in a civil conversation here and not reduce it to mockery and attacking. What's the point of discussion if no one leaves with something new to think?

The most annoying thing is hexbear and that everything needs to be political.

Especially when it's that cringe combination of both

People complaining about the promotion of FOSS on a FOSS powered site. Lemmy amd Mastodon are a golden opportunity to get people onboard with FOSS, no shit they're going to evangelize it. Not to mention the early adopters were obviously FOSS devs.

Sense of humor is a very limited resource on here, I've found.

Arguing about which instance is best / instance superiority / complaining about users from _______ instance.

My friends, we are on a collective group of web pages being hosted an run by individuals as a fucking hobby. Shut. Up.

To the admins, thank you.

There was a period about a month ago where things were surprisingly thoughtful and well-considered for the most part. Then another wave of probably younger redditors came in and they brought with they all of the reactionary meme-ish way of talking. You can't make people not be how they are, but I was sad to see all of that awesomeness diluted.

But who knows, maybe given enough time, Lemmy and the fediverse will make an impact on these people and they'll see that it's better to live in a society (albeit a digital one) where people make an effort to listen and to respond thoughtfully as opposed to getting something out just to get it out.

Lotta radical communities here who like to brigade posts on other, completely unrelated communities. Conversations were calmer with fewer slurs being thrown around a couple months ago.

Being really eager to defederate over relatively minor crap. What's the point of Lemmy then, man?

My only real complaint is that some of the groups I was in on reddit either aren't here, or are super small here. As far as the people go, maybe I've just been lucky but most folks have been pretty nice, and thus far I haven't really run into the extremist stuff some folks ahve mentioned.

The privacy crowd that is rather large on Lemmy reminds me too much of a stereotypical paranoid conspiracy theorist, pushing for things solely for their privacy features, even if everything else about the product is garbage. 9 times out of 10, even the people advocating for certain privacy features have absolutely no need of them, and they get overly upset when certain criminal groups take advantage of these privacy tools for the exact same reasons they advocate to use them; they're just doing very questionable things to necessitate the extreme privacy.

So many damn Linux memes and supremacy posting.

On a more real note though, a bunch of the smaller communities I was part of on reddit, and nearly every specific gaming sub I was in aren't here, or at least aren't anywhere near as active.

They aren't sports fans. One of the things I do most often on Reddit is participate in various gamethreads in /r/nfl, /r/cfb, /r/hockey, /r/baseball, etc etc etc. There are gamethreads on Lemmy, mostly on the fanaticus.social instance. I'm the only one I've seen post in them, except for bots.

I can't keep track of who is defederating whom, I don't really want to host my own instance here but I want to decide myself what I do or don't see

This platform is wonderful but the people on it circle jerk politics and aren't open to discussion. The community has dramatically shifted left. We're very far from the center now.

Came for the platform, considering leaving for the people.

Nothing so far. Sure, it's smaller and there are growing pains here and there, but the folk pretty nice here. Think I'll stay for a while...

Reddit tier memes being spammed around everywhere, I have so many meme subreddits blocked among other stuff

It's been, what,two months?

Are we seriously trying to create an arbitrary divide and pick fights already?

That some people tend to ask boring and repetitive question about Lemmy vs Reddit.

About users? Too wholesome. I feel like I need to be on my best behavior

About Lemmy?

— Why do I need to login so frequently?

— Why do my filters keep resetting?

— But most of all, lemmy doesn’t yet have the volume to keep some of the more specialized communities active

— and I wish we could get r/AskHistorians to rebuild here ?

— and how the eff do you do markup here?

— and why does the context button only work half the time?

— and how do I see my comments, especially when the context button isn’t working and I’m trying to figure out what someone replied to me about

I have a sense that the islands (instances) are concentrating/amplifying more extreme views echo chamber style. I'm sure it was there on reddit too... but I feel like I am exposed to more far right and far left viewpoints that are presented in a toxic/offensive manner on lemmy. It happened occasionally on Reddit but it is daily on lemmy. I am browsing All to find new content and not really liking what I find.

Lot of linux users here.

I once asked a linux user how his day was, and he said "Marked as duplicate, question locked."

I asked what that neant and he said "Artie Efemme"

For me it's been the people trying to turn this into a carbon copy of their Reddit experience. I get the desire to fill the void after leaving Reddit, but this is a different place with a different group of people and a different social dynamic. We don't need copies of the subreddits we had on Reddit. We don't need separate communities for every type of meme or joke like we had over there (yet). Creating niche communities is a little premature when we don't even have the larger ones reading critical mass yet.

And to a much lesser degree, I would like to stop seeing people say "sublemmy." But at least I understand how we got there. "Community" is such a generic term, it's easy to not realize that's what they're called.

The Grammer Nazi's are here to

Blithely continuing the blatant reposting of the same old submissions, especially the same two dozen years-old Twitter screencaps. Lemmy doesn't even track user karma, and it's still way too small to bother selling accounts for astroturfing! You don't actually have to karma-whore here!

Their annoyance with Reddit users. "Quit trying to Reddit my Lemmy!"