To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
Most of the time is great, but there’s hive mind here too. If you’re against running closed captions on your TV for example. That was the most recent I got bombed for, but there have been other times.
Most of the time it’s more adult, but sometimes it’s just like Reddit.
Try being supportive of Israel if you want a Really Good Time. jesus.
Friendlier than reddit, but a lot more really stupid hot takes than reddit. Not as many shitheads; but the shit heads that are here are even shittier than anywhere else I’ve been on the Internet. Mostly the super paranoid security and super hardcore “free speech” folks that are like the main character of Conspiracy Theory. This platform seems to attract a lot of those.
There’s also that weird “we’re better than people on Reddit” smugness.
It’s rare, but it is a unique brand of fuckery you don’t have to deal with over there.
The smugness can be a bit annoying but I interpret it as mostly jokes and healthy for the growth of the platform. I am enjoying myself more here than on Reddit, and when I see that others share that sentiment (smugly or not), it does embolden me to encourage my friends to give Lemmy a try.
Did you just reframe smugness as not only justified but helpful actually, and really it makes a place more popular?
That’s some 4D smugness.
Idk, if all the discussion on Lemmy was ‘damn this place sucks’ then I wouldn’t want to share it with my friends. Maybe it is just a bad take though lol I’m not feeling too hot on it reading it back now
I like a few of these communities, and I’ve had some nice conversations on some things I’m passionate about. But it seems like the population outside my small communities is dominated by violent wanna-be political activists competing for who can express the most outrageous sentiment.
Advocating against violence against one’s parents in a hypothetical situation where a parent developed the wrong US politics not only got me downvoted, but also replied to by some asshole from Australia who wanted to rub it in that I was clearly in the out-group.
I don’t normally reply when I see things like that, but after seeing so much vitriol I felt the need to leave a comment. I won’t be doing it again.
It’s a great place to wildly spout crazy nonsense and general gibberish with an underlying theme of overthrowing the system.
I came over during the Reddit migration but I’m so tired of every post either being about Israel/Palestine, late-stage capitalism, or femboys…
or worse - when the post is about something completely different but the comments are about Israel/Palestine, late-stage capitalism, or femboys…
I had somehow curated my Reddit to be mostly about the topics I wanted to read about, but I can’t seem to get that to happen here. I’ve been blocking communities and instances but my feed is still mostly stuff I don’t really want to read about…
I’m currently waiting to see what happens when Reddit IPOs but I doubt I’ll go back there and will probably just stop coming to lemmy too.
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