• !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
• Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)
• Pretty diverse where people are at location-wise. Feels like early internet instead of services trying to bubble you into your place/content.

Im sure there are others. Looking forward to what everyone else says!

.....Also Beans. Yeah didn't expect that.

• About half are Americans, about half are in non-US Western countries, 5% other
• everyone here hates the current US admin
• everyone uses adblockers
• everyone is anti-surveillance (except like 1 or 2 users you find occasionally defending mass surveillance that get downvoted into oblivion)
• everyone is either a Marxist Leninist, Left Anarchist, Social Democrat, or Democratic Socialist, except like a handful of liberals and like 2 conservatives
• almost everyone here supports vigilantism
• Germans... Germans Memes Everywhere
• BEANS
• Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.

Two leftists with minute political differences calling each other fascists.

That weird bot that assumed that woman's identity and was messaging everyone?

I can say Luigi Mangione all I want.

Even the idiots here are pretty smart.

A much more selective user base. People are very picky in what they upvote. I feel like in the Spez pool people upvoted or downvoted and would comment a lot easier. Here people vote with 3 options. Up, down or not. Feels much more deliberate. Also means you get a lot less comments (despite there being less users), because people follow the Bambi principle more here (if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all)

AND, I think there are some fediverse issues with the various clients and the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.

Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.

Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.

Don't @ me, but I soak in the drama of Best of Redditor Updates and the fediverse isn't quite suited to sagas like that yet.

But the guy who needed to not shit for 3 days made it over there. So that feels pretty noteworthy.

I am using Arch, btw.

The main LGBTQIA+ space is ran by a troll who bans anyone who doesn't kiss her boot.

Admins and mods are no different than any part of reddit.

They will be the death of their own spaces sadly.

They guy who asked how not to poop for a week.

I remember the the week I moved here that was in no stupid questions, there was not a lot of comments and post and that became big, references popped in other posts and comments and ultimately was forgotten.

This is akin of the poop in the shower, dunk in the toilet, guy from IMGUR in 2014 and I still think is legit as everyone is "anonymous" on the internet.

I know arch exists and is a type of linux, which is a type of computer for computer people.

I know there are a bunch of different types of linux but they all require the same socks to work right.

I know beans help corn grow.

I run Fireside Fedi. A show where I talk with folks from around the Fediverse. It's all Fedi powered as well. Live stream, Owncast (https://stream.firesidefedi.live/), VOD Peertube (https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi), GoToSocial and testing Bonfire for the social accounts.

I'm obviously biased though. :-)

The fact that most communities have a single unique moderator.

Real people with well policed and purged bigotry.

A furry wearing stockings while using Linux

I know how to not poop for 3 days.

I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY!