i dunno i just shitpost
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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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 know right? Even though it is at times the most active community. Anyway, Lemmy gets brigaded A LOT.
I noticed that too. Hot button issues it gets filled with shills for whatever side. Itβs very annoying and obvious that itβs happen because afterwards the interaction will disappear.
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.
"This!"
"Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!"
Why do they have to say the things? People don't say the things here.
"One of us. One of us."
This!
Well reddit is mostly bots and astroturfing. Lemmy seems to have more common sense.
They're different but they are similar. They rhyme.
Iβve been here for awhile and Iβm still trying to learn lemmy specific lingo thrown out like tankie and some others
Tankie is not Lemmy specific
Well, nor is madlad or whoosh but tabkie is used super often in Lemmy
Lemmy has a much higher proportion of Marxists to other users than Reddit does, so the anti-Marxism is also pretty high in response.
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.
It feels more tech-geeky leftist and less AITA fantasy text/AI generated nonsense spam driven
But still pretty similar otherwise
I REALLY love that thereβs no subreddits-as-hashtags bullshit here. That was insanely annoying to me on Reddit. Any speak of awards, too.
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.
It also feels way less advertised, and for me feels non profit, like I can go through lemmy without seeing promoted BS that I never volunteered to see.
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.
I don't know if you would count it but wir_iel doesn't exist on Reddit but does in Lemmy
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.
Once in a blue moon there will be a Reddit-style comment chain on Lemmy, I can tolerate it occasionally when the situation warrants it. When I left Reddit, I was getting tired of every top thread having at least one of the same joke template replies and I'm sure it hasn't gotten any better since.
Lemmy's issues are with leftist vs. liberal infighting I would say.
3M respirator, milk of magnesia, a first aid kit
deployment of force can sometimes be used against you, in specific situations. please be prepared even if you don't think its gonna be today.
Preparing for the worst is not a bad idea. If the situation turned sour, I'd love to be in a big group of people prepared for that. But if I did show up like that, I would've been 1 of a small handful with that level of preparedness. It wouldn't have mattered. By far, the most important thing for these protests to be successful is for people to show up in huge numbers. If people feel like they need to be ready for war, they won't show up and the protest won't be as impactful. I'd rather have 10s of thousands showing up in funny costumes carrying instruments and noisemakers than a couple hundred with gas masks.
putting basic countermeasures for basic aggression in your backpack is not that hard. keeping your phone off isnt either.
the more successfull you are over time, the more aggressive they will get. this is a universal fact.
Case in point
am i wrong tho
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.
cause you can really take part in the conversation instead of getting buried among 1000s of low effort comments
This.
apology
I couldn't resisit adding a quick low effort comment to emphasize your point. I'll see myself out.
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
Wooosh isn't a reddit thing though. I used to see it regularly way back in the slashdot days.
Been seeing whoosh creep in here and I downvote where I see it. It's not funny, it's just annoying
Someone frequently misses points.
I downvote puns when the topic isn't comedic. I'm so over that shit.
they are in jokes and memes repeated ad nauseam in the defaults. ive seen woosh used a couple of times here.
Iβve found that people actually have civil conversations here. Someone states a fact, another person asks for backup, itβs provided and the person says thanks I didnβt know that. Yeah there are less people here but I would take quality over quantity any day.
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.
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
References and phrases don't make a culture. The words may change, but the culture here is absolutely the same as Reddit. Which is why it's so damned cringe when you see someone on Lemmy offer a smug, self-satisfied criticism of some supposed inferiority in the Reddit userbase. That kind of smugness is peak Reddit-culture.