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One thing I've noticed is that I'm not met with slurs or death threats every time I post to an android related community. I always hated posting to android related subreddits because of this, especially considering the fact that the mods would punish me instead of the ones being vulgar/aggressive towards me.

So far the only thing the only "bad" thing that I can recall happening to me in an android community here on Lemmy was that a post I made was removed for "not being specific enough to android". I personally think that Lemmy isn't popular enough yet to justify doing that but I do understand their decision.

Is least compared to where I spent my time on Reddit before the api was removed, I've actually found Lemmy far more hostile. On Reddit, I found discussion fairly light-hearted with even more divisive discussions generally given the benifit of the doubt. On Lemmy, on the other hand, I can make a relatively uncontroversial statement like, "Steam provides useful tools." and be called a fanboy shill who supports fascists.

I'm lurking more, interacting less. But, seems to be a lot less recycled snark and bot activity here. But after reading some other comments, maybe my experience here is still a bit limited.

A greater percentage of more mature users, many of whom don’t want to see Lemmy turn into the cesspool that reddit has become

Things are smaller and more intimate (in that I can recognize more usernames).

I've blocked more users here than on Reddit though. Mostly just users that are annoying/spamming/give me really weird vibes. Actually, I don't think I blocked any users when I was on Reddit.

You can tell that Lemmy houses Reddit refugees...and some of them are refugees because they were completely banned on Reddit, and likely deserving, lol

Fewer bots. Its feels like the early days of reddit

Really community dependent.

[email protected] is well, casual.

Of course politics and news communities are something else.

Most comments mention this, I feel less amount of information (even on 'nerd' topics) and more repetition of same idea/meme. I still use reddit (without account) to find useful info.

Back in reddit days I used it more than I use lemmy nowadays. In many communities, doom scrolling will soon lead you to posts months old here, which is I guess a good thing in some way?

Also this place isn't as congested as reddit so virtually no annoyance like bots and shilling and scams going on.

Before 2024 it felt like an old school forum.

After that and the election cycle, feels more like Reddit in 2018

Reddit... Reddit? That was a while ago... huh, I have trouble recalling a previous life...

I don't remember the conversations I would ever have on r*ddit. Probably because I basically never got any form of interaction other than up and down votes on things that weren't niche communities like for Pokemon Reborn/Rejuvenation. I assume it's because I only ever started using that old account around end of summer 2020.

Lemmy is a lot "bubblier" than Reddit, I suspect because the communities are smaller. It's a lot easier for a community to have a preferred view on things, even things you wouldn't suspect were part of the community's theme, and if you take the wrong position you'll get pummeled with downvotes more easily.

Not that it doesn't happen on Reddit too, but I see it far more here on Lemmy. I'm still active on both and while I haven't done any formal comparison you're asking how it "feels" and that's definitely how it feels. I speak my mind freely on both platforms but on this one I'm more likely to see a pile of downvotes.

Well there's certainly a lot more tankies here, or at least more visible.

Other than that, I usually say Lemmy feels like Reddit of like 15 years ago, which isn't a bad thing

I never used reddit as much as I do the Threadyverse, but I get the feeling that here the mods are much quicker to dele my comments. But this might really be related with how little I used reddit.

When it comes to content, it seems more positive.