Yesterday it kinda hit me that the feed left a lot more “reddit-y” suddenly. More american politics for one.
There is a also aspecific thing that alerted me: Sudden appearance of this pattern plagueing reddit where a post about some bad muslim person escalates into edgy atheism which is also kinda racist and lowkey fascist in a very specific way.
I don’t have a lot of empiric evidence, just the vibe seems to have shifted.
Yup, but you can always decamp to other instances and other places. Once you’ve made the transition from Reddit to Lemmy, there’s much less friction transiting to your next watering hole.
I agree that people seem to be the same everywhere; the problem with reddit is that there get to be SO many people there that
a) moderation suffers b) you need upvotes in order to be VISIBLE–this has some nasty knock-on effects.
As Agent K says, “a person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”
All the smarmy boasting about the superiority of the lemmy style and its users is, as far as I can tell, mostly masturbation. It is better than reddit solely because it is less populated, because I can write a comment on a day old post and still get replies for a week, because I have to be careful not to be to total and complete of a flaming asshole because it wouldn’t take many people putting me on their blocklist to make me invisible, etc…