• Aneb@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

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

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

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

    What was I talkin’ about?

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    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!

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      I’m new here but this reminds me a lot of what reddit was like around 2008. I and lots of people came from slashdot, to be able to talk about things other than computers. So everyone is a nerd that cares about data and wants to have a genuine conversation, and I think that makes my experience more intelligent because it becomes less about winning by drowning interesting topics with the same rehashed jokes or tropes, and more about formulating your own thoughts as best you can.

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      Lemmy also tends towards misogyny and truscum attitudes moreso than Reddit. There are great instances like blahaj or zip where that’s not the case, but on Lemmy it’s not feasible to only view posts on subscribed communities, while on Reddit it is. And that means it’s easier to build a progressive feed on Reddit.

      Also one of the Lemmy lead devs is transphobic.

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    4 hours ago

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

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      2 hours ago

      When the other platforms were twitter and facebook, it wasn’t really wrong either. The bar was just that low.

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      3 hours ago

      I remember that. They never shutup about rick and Morty, and there was a whole community where they rated the smell of their own farts.

  • Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works
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    I’ve heard the differences as:

    “Lemmy is where dumbasses go to act smart, and Reddit is where smartasses go to act dumb.”