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People are more genuinely interested in actually contributing to a conversation here and likely to read through your stuff/reply. I feel more seen.
Reddit is a generic corporate algoritm flavored slop with LLMs with an agenda talking to human morons somehow dumber and less aware than the LLMs. Lemmy is at least mostly human but has a personality archetype bias that takes getting used to. Even on niche communities here theres a high likelyhood you're talking to someone whos either a left leaning political activist, is really into alternative gender identity politics, knows a lot about information technology/STEM, has some serious kinky fetishes, is neurodivergent, or a mix of the above.
So you have the conversational pitfalls that come from talking to tech nerds, liberal arts students, the loud and proud members of lgbqt+, tankies, and all the in between relatively outcast groups that didn't fit well on reddit in the first place. Every 1/10 post on all is going to be about how fucked the climate change is, lgbqt rights, femboys, trump/elon/conservative republicans doing something stupid or evil or facist, a really unfunny 'meme' thats really about spreading some message or showcasing how victimized X minority group is, why linux is good and windows/microsoft bad, some half baked plan by young political activist who think they can overthrow a global corporatocracy with some clever cordinated consumer protesting. At least the content is overall consistent.
As someone who doesn't really identify with most of these im left feeling lemmy isn't for me sometimes but its a decent enough social outlet that I can tune out the stuff I don't care for while being involved with the niche communities im actually here to be part of.
I know you're complaining, but I think you just described a good chunk of the reasons why I like Lemmy and the fediverse in general.
It wasn't really my intent to complain but rather inform the OP with how I see Lemmy and which kinds of people make up a good portion of the overall community that contribute to conversations after being here for quite some time. I dont think I whinged or went on a opinionated rant that really catagorizes as complaining.
It feels wrong to hit the "block" button for something I'm simply not interested in, but ever since I started using it to curate my home page, the content has become more relevant to me. Personally, I never had the patience to get into coding, so I block communities about it. I have nothing against it, and I love that coders have communities they can take part in, but blocking that topic means more space for things I like when scrolling through All.
I think Lemmy's still in the process of maturing. I would love to see the kind of niche communities that Reddit has, where the topic of the sub is oddly specific yet not polarizing. I even have an idea for one that can provide some of that energy, but I'm trying to save up more content for potential posts before taking the leap to create it.
Your presence here as someone who doesn't identify with those groups brings tremendous value to this space. Your perspective is different and you might encourage others like you to join.
Thanks Feathercrown I greatly appreciate you for saying that! 😎