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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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People are people. My interactions on here have been largely the same as on Reddit, and on Reddit largely the same as on forums before that. Lemmy was and still is niche, so only a specific subset of people would've interacted here. That changes as more and more people arrive here.
A lower percentage of them are people on Reddit and unfortunately that percentage is dropping here also. (We have bots posting weird questions to the question communities for example)
Reddit is a decent measure of people on the Internet in general. At least, Western people. Asia has its own forums.
Reddit has abdorbed some of the most technical and the most stupid people there are. The most kind abd the most fascist. It's a statistical inevitability for a jack-of-all-trades platform.
Sure, but I was referring to the "people" (user accounts) that literally are not people (human) because they are software instead.
Yup, but you can always decamp to other instances and other places. Once you've made the transition from Reddit to Lemmy, there's much less friction transiting to your next watering hole.
I agree that people seem to be the same everywhere; the problem with reddit is that there get to be SO many people there that
a) moderation suffers b) you need upvotes in order to be VISIBLE--this has some nasty knock-on effects.
As Agent K says, "a person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
All the smarmy boasting about the superiority of the lemmy style and its users is, as far as I can tell, mostly masturbation. It is better than reddit solely because it is less populated, because I can write a comment on a day old post and still get replies for a week, because I have to be careful not to be to total and complete of a flaming asshole because it wouldn't take many people putting me on their blocklist to make me invisible, etc...