It's like Reddit if everyone talked about Linux

Lemmy community is even worse because it's less diverse.

The Reddit bot problem isn't as prevalent in smaller, non-political subreddit.

Lemmy barely has any communities that aren't political or tech related.

And most importantly, the NSFW communities are significantly under par.

i dunno i just shitpost

it's exactly the same. maybe some of the "reddiquette" cultural problems are worse

That's highly dependent on the instance I find.

Solely from the parts of the lemmyverse I frequent, yes definitely. People would think you're quite silly if you talked like a redditor, even if they were too polite to openly mock you for it.

Well reddit is mostly bots and astroturfing. Lemmy seems to have more common sense.

They're different but they are similar. They rhyme.

It feels more tech-geeky leftist and less AITA fantasy text/AI generated nonsense spam driven

But still pretty similar otherwise

Lemmy is closer to what Reddit was 15 years ago, before the masses piled in and made Reddit literally average.

Most of us are Reddit refugees, so we're bringing all that baggage with us, whether we want to or not.

The main draw of Lemmy for me is the feeling that I'm less exposed to the corporate BS.

As a reddit refugee, we have a couple more or less similar mannerisms but the system is massively different. It is intrinsically anticapitalist, not easy to censor, resistant to eee attacks, etc. It is a revolutionary platform which the antithesis of modern reddit. Reddit has started out as true and good but it has been recuperated by capitalism. Lemmy (and all alternatives, as long as decentralized) is the natural successor of reddit.

Every subreddit has its own vibe. Some have fully transitioned here like linux and some of the meme sharing communities. Many have not. I cannot really think of communities on Lemmy that do not exist on Reddit.

Reddit has a bunch of "call-and-response" sort of trigger words and phrases, along with canned responses to a situation, repeated in-jokes, etc which made a lot of the site feel bloated and samey. Definitely the comments are much sparser here but there's none of that. Anytime I Google something and check a reddit thread for answers, I'm shocked at how easily any thread can turn into some blown up debate about something stupid. In general that doesn't happen here.

On the other hand, this is a pretty leftists-only echo chamber which narrows perspective. I went to the no kings protest today. If you believe Lemmy, I should have brought thrifted clothes, a 3M respirator, milk of magnesia, a first aid kit, heat resistant gloves, etc. really what I needed was an energy drink because I got tired. Lemmy can get pretty up it's own ass about the aesthetics of revolution.

I feel that it's almost more personal here on Lemmy in the sense that things feel genuine. As opposed to Reddit where bullshit abounds.

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there's so many similarities that they're going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There's still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

like madlad, woosh, etc

I haven't used Reddit for years, and I have no idea about those terms. If they're a Reddit thing, I don't recognise them.

Lemmy is also less tolerant of debate bros.

So yeah, they're different

I’ve been here for awhile and I’m still trying to learn lemmy specific lingo thrown out like tankie and some others

I can't speak to the minutia but when I use Lemmy it just feels like a less popular Reddit to me. For me, that's not a bad thing, just the vibe I get.

I’ve found that people actually have civil conversations here. Someone states a fact, another person asks for backup, it’s provided and the person says thanks I didn’t know that. Yeah there are less people here but I would take quality over quantity any day.

Beans. The Lemmy version has much more beans.

it has a lot less users

You're a lot less likely to get downvoted for something that offends someone, even if it's just a knowledge point.

We have a couple of instances with the same admin/mod powertripping culture and thinking every comment is a formal argument