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Blåhaj Lemmy is a Lemmy instance attached to blahaj.zone. This is a group for questions or discussions relevant to either instance.

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TL;DR - Lemmy's userbase compare to Reddit just feel more angry and it so offputting when asking a question and getting an answer that sound like their pissed off. Feels oddly worse than Reddit.

Honestly, I want to like Lemmy as I want to try not use Reddit as much. The thing that is holding me back is I hate the users on Lemmy which their often passive aggressive and really snarky. I know Reddit does have those people but I always seen more them on Lemmy where I barely used it as much.

I asked on AskLemmy community if there's any Gen-Z community around, ideally just talking about nostalgia and stuff like that. Nothing malicious at all. Then got a angry reply saying "Fuck Gen-what, just join community and post!" and telling me about generation are there to "divide" people. Apparently, me asking community which mainly be me talking about cartoon and games I grow up with is evil.

If the tone was at least "This may not matter as much and you find it better picking any community that in your best interest" then I'm be alright, it the way they seem pissed at me for even asking it like I'm an idiot which gets to me. When I told that person to calm down and stop being snarky, I got reply from other users saying they wasn't.

Might stick to Reddit for now. I know it not great but it in my experince isn't as easily pissed off and is actually bareable to scroll for awhile. I hate talking bad about Lemmy as I really want to like it but I just hate the userbase so much that it feels pointless to even properly use it as much.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This is a genuine concern and I do get tired if it myself sometimes. Users here can be extreme.

Have you considered beehaw? Their primary focus is to "be nice", although I think they're only federated with a limited set of instances.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I hadn't no. To be honest, I just assume it was just another Lemmy instance but will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

You can also block entire instances at once. I've found blocking lemmygrad, hexbear, and the political communities on .ml cuts down a lot on the outright genocide fans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

One thing to know about Lemmy is that they use a very old version of Lemmy. A lot of quality of life features are missing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

There is also a set of more relaxed communities

https://feddit.uk/post/22376629