By culture, I mean mannerisms, references and key words and phrases (like madlad, woosh, etc)
Lemmy is a bit more open thanks for the modlog.
We literally don’t know how much is being censored and reddit because mods can remove anything they want without leaving evidence.
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.
The obsession with Technology Connections seems to be unique to Lemmy. I think it’s memeified at this point!
I feel like it’s pretty similar but the low population makes it easier to spot repeat posters. Also I feel like the quality of answers tend to better (lengthier, more thought out, e.t.c)
It feels more tech-geeky leftist and less AITA fantasy text/AI generated nonsense spam driven
But still pretty similar otherwise
Well reddit is mostly bots and astroturfing. Lemmy seems to have more common sense.
That’s highly dependent on the instance I find.
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.
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.
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.
Case in point
am i wrong tho
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.
it’s exactly the same. maybe some of the “reddiquette” cultural problems are worse
