I think the influence on Reddit was deeper than a lot of people have considered. The hivemind was so strong it made it difficult to have decent and useful discussion, even the puns that muddied down nearly every post's comments achieved that end. The amount of posts I've seen of people feeling much more comfortable actually interacting on Lemmy, in my mind, lends weight to how Reddit wasn't a place for objective dialogue. That's why it felt so adolescent, like sitting at a high school lunch table.

For me, It's the lack of advertising. Especially the constant guerilla advertising and flash marketing done in the larger subs.

I haven't been here much since I joined last week, but one thing I noticed is I've barely seen any typos on Lemmy. While I definitely don't mind seeing the occasional typo, the number of spelling mistakes was getting annoying, and it's gotten progressively worse over the last year or so.

I had a lovely conversation with a 19 yr old. He kind of reminded me of myself, only growing up in this crazy time. He was really thoughtful about his experiences. Any one here now is probably a touch more mindful, but we can all slip and be dumb or even bad people, and when there's more people, it's easier to do, especially when there are people who are sad or mad or whatever.

No kids? I am a kid

For me it is lack of commercial interests (ads hidden in post), lack of bots, and lack of "funny meme and jokes' posts.

I’m so happy to find a new community. Looking around quickly this seem like a much better group of people to interact with than reddit.

I can’t express enough how glad I am this place exists and I can be done with reddit forever

man. i hope there would be an age barrier to those or something, or they be periodically flagged so they dont spread around. i had enough of kids and shitposters. is this heaven

https://imgur.com/a/zMorTCb

we have to commit to our duty as users of the community if we want it the way we like it

hot take but nobody under 18 should be allowed on any form of social media or internet forum

but there's no way to enforce that. better solution is to just get rid of all social media

Because of the lack of children there are no discord mods either, paradise manifest