Yeah, I hate Reddit as a company for the same reasons as everyone else, but I keep going back there because the quality and diversity of discussion on Lemmy isn’t good enough.
It’s like early Reddit in that people stay on topic and make relatively high effort comments, but it’s dominated by straight white male libertarian software engineers, so you get really narrow viewpoints that overwhelm anything else.
This. The whole circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is and how people are so glad they left reddit is getting really old, really fast. Meanwhile, any interesting post that would be normally spur fervent and meaningful discussion on reddit has maybe a dozen comments on Lemmy, most of them low effort. Heck, this exact same article on reddit’s r/technology has 10x more comments and way more total engagement.
The spam and toxicity here are the same as on reddit with a different tone. Lemmy is just another echo chamber with a different coat of paint, and the only differences are a lack of ads and way less people and diversity to interact with.
It’s something I’ve seen POC on Mastodon complaining about, that everyone in the fediverse thinks they belong in every discussion. It’s been the same with the autism community on Lemmy, I’ll say something about my experience of autism and immediately get a reply like “I’m not autistic but I disagree”.
At least Reddit is big enough that not every post hits the front page and gets a comment from every user, so niche subs can fly under the radar a bit.
Yeah, I hate Reddit as a company for the same reasons as everyone else, but I keep going back there because the quality and diversity of discussion on Lemmy isn’t good enough.
It’s like early Reddit in that people stay on topic and make relatively high effort comments, but it’s dominated by straight white male libertarian software engineers, so you get really narrow viewpoints that overwhelm anything else.
This. The whole circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is and how people are so glad they left reddit is getting really old, really fast. Meanwhile, any interesting post that would be normally spur fervent and meaningful discussion on reddit has maybe a dozen comments on Lemmy, most of them low effort. Heck, this exact same article on reddit’s r/technology has 10x more comments and way more total engagement.
The spam and toxicity here are the same as on reddit with a different tone. Lemmy is just another echo chamber with a different coat of paint, and the only differences are a lack of ads and way less people and diversity to interact with.
It’s something I’ve seen POC on Mastodon complaining about, that everyone in the fediverse thinks they belong in every discussion. It’s been the same with the autism community on Lemmy, I’ll say something about my experience of autism and immediately get a reply like “I’m not autistic but I disagree”.
At least Reddit is big enough that not every post hits the front page and gets a comment from every user, so niche subs can fly under the radar a bit.