Ask Lemmy

Hostile, no not really. Less tolerance for bullshit isn’t necessarily hostile.

Insular? Yeah. It’s a small community.

Treating every comment you disagree with as through it were a dissertation is called Isolated Demand For Rigor and it's a bad faith tactic used to burden the opponent with a workload no sane person would ever take on for an internet comment and win by default. You should probably block anybody you see who does that.

Nope I get the opposite. Maybe depends on specific instances you are following? In honesty I never replied on Reddit but here I found it pretty pleasurable!

Nah, I'm one of the baddies. I want conversation, not just memes and canned comments.

Yep, the content of comments is often good, but geez, there are a bunch of people with no social skills being total dorks or confidently incorrect

This has pretty much already been answered, but I'll weigh in. It's all about where you are. A political discussion? Yeah, it's normally serious. A meme thread? Usually it isn't. Unlike Reddit though, there's a mix of both Reddit was all jokes all the time usually. Even seemingly serious topics, the top comments would be jokes.

I know what you mean.

There's a lot of people here who just take everything so seriously, and want to one up everyone. That they don't even know why they're ramming a stick up their ass anymore.

Insular, yeah. Hostile, not really. That said, I don't mind seriousness being the default, and humor being clearly marked (to avoid Poe's Law confusions).

I appreciate the people who come in with receipts, it really gives a vibe that critical thinking is worth the effort, which is something that, I feel, is super important in nowadays and times.

I've come across one or two grumpy gus' who seem mostly unhappy with their lives, or incapable of changing their mind, even if all evidence contradicting what their original brain blip stated.

But it's gunna be a mix like that. Because we are a subset of people, using this site. I tell my kids all the time, people fill the same pie chart of behaviours, regardless of what culture, place they come from or belief's they have, there's always a tiny percentage of dickheads, that seem more because they're very loud or intrusive. That have a very sad life, with no ability to grow wisdom or enjoy things around them, which is sad!

When I first came here from reddit a few years ago (I had to change instances etc, and I'm not as tech savvy as most people here) I was super sensitive and raw, from all the bruising reddit gave out. It's getting a little salve, being here.

I love the humour here! I've been so tempted to tell everyone how much I laughed at their humour! I go and read comments first before articles, for 2 reasons because there's just comedy gold everywhere. And most of the time the people explain the article better than the article explains the things, the people here are so smart! Theres so many people who explain things like they already know that industry intimately and in great depth. This is such a great place to learn, it's given me some great inspiration to deep dive into subjects.

The user base here seems rather worldly balanced, too. And they'll drop their impressions of a thing from the view of their culture, which I could not appreciate more!

This is a brilliant place, with wonderful people who might be having a bad day, here and there, as we all do. I really hope you can find your groove, and not let the turkeys get you down.

Eh, not really. Sometimes, sure, but to be honest it doesn't feel significantly different from reddit in that regard. There's always going to be some pedantic assholes on the Internet.

Compared to Reddit it's a paradise

I’m only a month in to my Lemmy journey (a few days or so of being actually active now I understand how it works) and I have so far found totally the opposite.

It’s sure a lot nicer than reddit, we can express ourselves better here without worrying about the banhammer or shit like that. Hell on Reddit I used to get permanently muted from communities just cause I said a ‘bad word’ - once was by a really good sub because I directly quoted an Australian animated skit with the word cunt in it. I’m Aussie so I’m not offended by it in the least, it’s an Aussie staple that can mean all kinds of things.

People here seem nicer, smaller community, more open for a chat, don’t have to autistically worry about someone getting offended as often. More likely to upvote comments too.

In short, fuck Reddit haha.

Yeah. In my opinion it’s slowly getting worse. I don’t feel like posting any more because it’s usually an instant downvote.