When I first started using Lemmy it seemed like such a nice place with interesting discussions. It seemed like the first group of people to join after the app exodus were being quite careful to be respectful of the existing culture.

Now, it seems as though the culture from Reddit has completely replaced it. Toxicity and all. I will say I do follow a lot of communities from a wide range of instances so it’s clearly not everywhere.

Am I the only one who’s feeling like we’ve just stormed in and bulldozed Lemmy?

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    1 year ago

    I felt that way until I found out the bigger instances aren’t even much older. Lemmy World itself apparently started as soon as the changes were announced but before any big protests began. Instances that were around even before those either were not very active to even have an established culture, or are so niche they’re not really affected.

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      51 year ago

      Also, it’s likely that anyone on Lemmy had tried reddit prior. Lemmy doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Lemmy culture is former reddit culture to some extent, for better or worse.