I don’t feel smug because I left Reddit. I feel sad that it turned into a vapid, sterile mockery of itself and I stopped having fun there. I like fun places. And I lost one.

Life's hard enough as it is, one has to practice self love.

The difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that you can post this without getting shadowed banned

People still care about Reddit!?

Two things can be true at once

Idk I'm certain I'm at least smarter than the half of reddit users that are LLMs and thus cannot count the number of Rs in any given fruit.

Tbf biggest reddit communuties are gaming ones and biggest lemmu communities are programming ones.

Toot that horn, little buddy.

Man, y'all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.

What was I talkin' about?

Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge... which I can't claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit's variety of topics to include... I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don't think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.

Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you'll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D

So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!

But that's Mastodon's mascot!

I'm sure there is a Mastodon joke in there somewhere.

A new meaning to "nose job"

Honestly I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this but from my experience the average Lemmy poster seems kind of dumber than the average reddit poster, or at least more anti-intellectual, outside of certain instances and communities specifically dedicated to tech stuff. I really don't get it because Lemmy is more confusing to set up than Reddit and I always imagined people who were into the fediverse to be on the more tech savvy side but I'm constantly surprised at confident incorrectness and how much it gets upvoted.

Tbf, a lemmy user is far less likely to be a bot, so... yes?

Actually how big is an elephant cock?

Ah, 3 foot. Hope nobody check my browsing history today.

And Lemmy users in this thread

Joke's on you. That looks like a lot of fun.

If I could do that I wouldnt be wasting my time here.

Auto-Fellatio Elephant on my home feed. What a day!

The irony is that reddit users would say the same about other people on other platforms.

To be honest, I need something more substantial, but I haven't found where to go after we lost forums

that dong is attached below the knees?

I mean…yes. This is one of the things I imagine I would try if I ever had the equipment.

You think if I could do that I'd be here?

I do feel like I have more authentic interactions on here. It's hard not to see how much more heavily a huge platform like reddit is botted and astroturfed, and controlled by a handful of owners, mods and powerusers, compared to the nascent fediverse. Not that we don't have those things here too, I think Lemmy just hasn't had a high enough profile, yet, to warrant much attention from the same bad actors who run vast portions of reddit, X, and facebook. Here's hoping it stays that way for a little while longer.

First thing this image makes me think of are Linux users