Much kinder than Reddit, people here know how to disagree and discuss things in a more constructive way.
Seconded. I’ve definitely had more discussions here than my last year on reddit. Reddit is just a rat race to get the most upvotes for flippant comments or you get downvoted for being nonconformist, especially in the big subs. Also, participants on lemmy with agendas tend to be way more transparent - as in political or pseudo-science. Far easier to avoid or block if need be.
Nuh-uh!
Nuh-uh-uh!!
Oh yeah? Well heck you and your dumb frickin position you stupy dumb dumby dumb idiot small smooth brain moron. I’m right youre wrong !!!1!1!1!1!1!2!
Yep! Even when I’ve disagreed with people, it’s been more of an exchange of knowledge rather than one person asking for citations and then proceeding to ignore them all.
It’s okay to disagree, sometimes you can learn from each other :)
Can you cite these comments or do I need to just believe you?
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Being able to comment and post without jumping through arbitrary hoops. No automod bots telling me I need 10 karma to post, no oops sorry not allowed to share external links to other websites, no oh no sharing pictures in the comments below post. Lemmy aligns with the principles of respecting user interaction on a technical level and not choking the life out of you with corporate TOS regulation.
Lemmy is not perfect. I am not really politically or ideologically aligned with a lot of the stuff the community as a whole is into, so being constantly exposed to the same themes and propaganda over and over gets a little grating. However I’m happy to deal and tolerate as long as I feel respected by the platform as a intelligent person using an open free as in freedom discussion fourm and not made to feel like yet another drone fueling a corpo content mill.
The Beans?
The Beans.
Alot of people are really helpful for any questions you might ask, as long as you are respectful
Apologies for saying this, but if I’m being completely honest about it, it’s more of what I hate less about the Lemmy culture, than I do the Reddit culture. The lesser of two evils kind of thing.
On the plus side, it does seem like it has less corporate censorship than Reddit does.
the big percentage of FOSS users, privacy enthusiats and the self-hosting community
It does feel like a bit of a purity contest/circlejerk to me at times though.
it does feel like that sometimes tho
Citing sources
Beans.
Not the most extra ordinary of things but I do like that there is no (USA ?) babysitting when it comes to say fuck etc.