To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)

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    9 months ago

    Friendlier than reddit, but a lot more really stupid hot takes than reddit. Not as many shitheads; but the shit heads that are here are even shittier than anywhere else I’ve been on the Internet. Mostly the super paranoid security and super hardcore “free speech” folks that are like the main character of Conspiracy Theory. This platform seems to attract a lot of those.

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      299 months ago

      Makes sense. There are two types of people here: those that left reddit by choice, and those that got ran off because they were assholes.

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        9 months ago

        To be fair, I didn’t exactly come here by choice; I was ran off of reddit because Spez is an asshole and killed off the only good way to use the site on a mobile device. Though had I known about Lemmy before the appocalypse I would have come by choice. I didn’t know about it until all that kerfuffle and was already looking for alternatives.

        • enkers
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          99 months ago

          Yeah, same here. But you could have chosen to use their shit mobile app, is what I mean.

    • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      229 months ago

      I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. There are some hilariously poor takes on here, and some that were never an issue on Digg or early-days Reddit. I’ve had arguments on here that I’ve never had anywhere else, from Americans telling me that I am incorrect about my own country, people telling me that I am wrong about software I’ve literally worked on with my employer, and frankly some of the worst political views you’d find on a left-leaning board.

      I can tolerate the Linux and security nutjobs, because they’re just rehashing the same tired arguments from a decade ago, and will be making up the same nonsense about switching their parents from Windows to Linux and them just saying “oh, that’s nice, it’s really good” all while they’re just happy that their son is interacting with humans for a change.

      • @Daxtron2@startrek.website
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        119 months ago

        I think that’s kinda just become an issue everywhere. People are a lot more brazen with their stupidity now than ever before.

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          9 months ago

          Literally true, bc when an actual world leader (USA, UK, Canada, ofc Israel, Brazil, etc. etc. etc.) says stuff, some people strangely are likely to believe it.

          Like: “Drink bleach”. I am 100% not kidding you there - multiple people did precisely that!

          It emboldens the crazies to realize that they are not alone.:-(

      • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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        99 months ago

        I can tolerate the Linux and security nutjobs, because they’re just rehashing the same tired arguments from a decade ago, and will be making up the same nonsense about switching their parents from Windows to Linux and them just saying “oh, that’s nice, it’s really good” all while they’re just happy that their son is interacting with humans for a change.

        Ouch, man

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      9 months ago

      Sadly so many of the tech people here are the kind of slashdot dredge that think gluing USB ports shut is good for security and installing a Plex server is the solution to any media-related problem expressed.

    • @adam_y@lemmy.world
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      99 months ago

      There’s also that weird “we’re better than people on Reddit” smugness.

      It’s rare, but it is a unique brand of fuckery you don’t have to deal with over there.

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        39 months ago

        Back in the day I used to see tons of posts claiming that Reddit was “the elite”, in comparison to the likes of Facebook, or Twitter, or Tumblr, or Instagram, and so on. So, while your statement is technically true (the best kind!), that anti-Reddit people don’t tend to say so…on Reddit, so much as here anyway (though if you look in the likes of r/ModCoord, occasionally there is a comment that makes it past the new mods and is allowed to criticize Reddit in some way) I think it’s common to all social media. We (in-group) are The Best! :-P

      • Elle
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        19 months ago

        There’s also that weird “we’re better than people on Reddit” smugness.

        It’s rare, but it is a unique brand of fuckery you don’t have to deal with over there.

        Isn’t the Reddit equivalent something along the lines of, “We’re better than people on [social media]” smugness? Social media being a catchall for say, Facebook, Twitter, or in the past few years, TikTok.

        It reminds me of the classic silliness of competing forums for the same subject/topic back in the day. “We on TechFans95 are so much better than people on TechFans94” and vice versa.

      • @OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world
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        09 months ago

        The smugness can be a bit annoying but I interpret it as mostly jokes and healthy for the growth of the platform. I am enjoying myself more here than on Reddit, and when I see that others share that sentiment (smugly or not), it does embolden me to encourage my friends to give Lemmy a try.

        • @adam_y@lemmy.world
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          49 months ago

          Did you just reframe smugness as not only justified but helpful actually, and really it makes a place more popular?

          That’s some 4D smugness.

          • @OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world
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            19 months ago

            Idk, if all the discussion on Lemmy was ‘damn this place sucks’ then I wouldn’t want to share it with my friends. Maybe it is just a bad take though lol I’m not feeling too hot on it reading it back now

            • @adam_y@lemmy.world
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              29 months ago

              This is all in good nature… I mean, there is a reason why quite a few of us are here. Myself included.

              …and yeah, I’d like to see healthy engagement here and if that means a little smugness just to convince people to get involved, I’ll take it.