• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    4 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.

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 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.

    • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 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).

      • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Topic is about Lemmy as a whole, and I’m responding with my impression of that. Your re-interpretation of my impression doesn’t really make sense to me. I’m sure others have different experiences with their own usage of Lemmy but mine does not revolve around my instance enough for me to even form an impression of it. It certainly doesn’t dominate my user experience.

        I do appreciate the responses here hinting that I’m wrong about my experience on Lemmy but I had a 13 year old Reddit account that I nuked after the API debacle and I remember the monoculture that developed. Lemmy is not Reddit even if a few instances have their own subcultures. Doesn’t invalidate my impression.

        Thanks for pointing out how my opinion is wrong though.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

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

  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
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    4 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.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Apologies for saying this, but if I’m being completely honest about it, it’s more of what I hate less about the Lemmy culture, than I do the Reddit culture. The lesser of two evils kind of thing.

    On the plus side, it does seem like it has less corporate censorship than Reddit does.

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  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 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.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      4 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.

      • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 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!

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    It’s a plus and a negative: how anti-fascist and anti-capitalist it is. I do think that it can go too far at times, but I just block those people. We should try to be less binary as that just isn’t what reality is like.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Lemmy culture? Nothing, lacks diversity. I often feel like I’m just talking to the same guy. Very rare to read views that don’t align with the groupthink.

    EDIT: Okay, one thing that came to mind is that I can talk about autistic stuff that I do and nobody seems to question/judge it.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 months ago

      Okay, one thing that came to mind is that I can talk about autistic stuff that I do and nobody seems to question/judge it.

      Of course, the one guy you’re talking to is also autistic.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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    4 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