• MTK@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Much kinder than Reddit, people here know how to disagree and discuss things in a more constructive way.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      Seconded. I’ve definitely had more discussions here than my last year on reddit. Reddit is just a rat race to get the most upvotes for flippant comments or you get downvoted for being nonconformist, especially in the big subs. Also, participants on lemmy with agendas tend to be way more transparent - as in political or pseudo-science. Far easier to avoid or block if need be.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      Yep! Even when I’ve disagreed with people, it’s been more of an exchange of knowledge rather than one person asking for citations and then proceeding to ignore them all.

      It’s okay to disagree, sometimes you can learn from each other :)

      • MTK@lemmy.world
        41·
        2 months ago

        Can you cite these comments or do I need to just believe you?

      • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Oh yeah? Well heck you and your dumb frickin position you stupy dumb dumby dumb idiot small smooth brain moron. I’m right youre wrong !!!1!1!1!1!1!2!

  • sma3in@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    the big percentage of FOSS users, privacy enthusiats and the self-hosting community

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          1 month ago

          Hmm, it’s hard to say. The purge record doesn’t display anything like username searchable by the standard frontend, and it’s still a lot rarer than normal removals. The top purge on .ml right now relates to this thread, shown federated to my instance, and it’s neither of the ones visible there, but that could just be that it wasn’t federated in time.

          The reason given was that it’s a reply to the wrong thread, which should definitely be a normal removal. The only clear-cut case for a true purge is doxxing or CSAM.

  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Being able to comment and post without jumping through arbitrary hoops. No automod bots telling me I need 10 karma to post, no oops sorry not allowed to share external links to other websites, no oh no sharing pictures in the comments below post. Lemmy aligns with the principles of respecting user interaction on a technical level and not choking the life out of you with corporate TOS regulation.

    Lemmy is not perfect. I am not really politically or ideologically aligned with a lot of the stuff the community as a whole is into, so being constantly exposed to the same themes and propaganda over and over gets a little grating. However I’m happy to deal and tolerate as long as I feel respected by the platform as a intelligent person using an open free as in freedom discussion fourm and not made to feel like yet another drone fueling a corpo content mill.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    TBH it feels like a pretty continuous evolution of Reddit, Digg, and whatever was between Digg and usenet. There’s self selection that’s made it a bit more harmonious than Reddit, but that’s it.

    That being said, it’s super cool to get a glimpse into the million different experiences people have had. The internet is a magical place.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

    Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

    We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say

    • crimsonpoodle@pawb.social
      3·
      2 months ago

      See this is why we have to stand up for blueberries— this guy just spouts off with his hate for blueberries— it’s just unwarranted. He can have my love when he gets his hands off my blueberries.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Not the most extra ordinary of things but I do like that there is no (USA ?) babysitting when it comes to say fuck etc.

  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    At first I liked that it was nicer and more intelligent but recently that hasn’t been true. My current favorite thing is that it is selfhostable and many users do it.

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion, not just a few top meme-comments and a sea of ignored participation.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion,

    • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I disagree. It’s more likely that your instance’s culture happens to largely match what you feel internt culture should be, or at least what you on some leve have already been accultrated to so there is no friction.

      One thing that is noticeable is that each instance seems to have a distinct local culture. It’s not a great difference, but it is noticeable. It reminds me of the difference between the cultures of the town I grew up in (a decaying community in the rust belt where hope goes to die) and my current town (the sort of farm town that has a holiday celebrating corn).