Remembering other people is something I only had on the old forums before everything got piled into one huge site. Back then the group was small and you actually talked to the same people regulary. Now I don't even notice usernames anymore.

reddits own bot/slop tells them what they want to hear thats why. i think the thing is reddit still has niche subs, that hasnt been impacted by the bots that much, hence its better than some ways. lemmy is too small and the largest communities are politics mostly.

define mature.

do you just mean people you agree with?

what do you regard as 'repulsive' behaviour?

when I was on reddit there were active sexual predators exploiting people on some subs and some of them were mods. nobody thought that was repulsive.

Culture in what communities? Because I mainly subscribe to tech and games and haven't noticed a difference.

Same on reddit where people here talk about how they've been banned, but I just follow tech, games, and niche hobby subs there and not the big subs.

But, if someone is engaging in news related communities I could see how culture might be more negative. But, that's been the case for all social media for that matter when it comes to heated topics.

People like that exist, but I just block them and move on and i really can't overstate how much that changes the experience.

Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn't have great mechanisms for avoiding harassment or toxicity - the ethos of free speech prevents the creators from wanting to allow users to hide their posts from others (a common solution implemented on other platforms).

Because of that, I get inbox notifications from blocked users sometimes (that I can't see unless I unblock them), so I just -> Mark all as read. Negativity gone.

On the flip side of toxicity, I've found fewer toxic mods that rule comms like their own little fiefdom to arbitrarily police (only a single one so far) - on Reddit it was pretty common to encounter.

The bad ones can be banned 🤷‍♀️