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Former redditors, how do you feel the conversations on lemmy differ than the ones you've observed on reddit? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Disclaimer: I always viewed limited subreddits that fed my interests, and my Home feed. I never looked at All, because it never seemed to have things I'm interested in. That probably influences how I perceived Reddit.

Reddit:

Way more niche topics. It was quite possible to find people who shared the same narrow interests as you. On Lemmy, having conversations about these things is hard.
Towards the end, there was a much greater tendency for top comments to be a joke/quip/insider joke as opposed to actual thoughtful discussion.
It felt like there was a much greater tolerance of nuance and complexity, though this was also showing cracks towards the end.

Lemmy:

Politics definitely swing a bit more towards the left. In some cases this means "people just talk about corporations doing bad stuff more", and in some cases it can mean some pretty out-there positions, like people fanboying for China or terrorists.
It's much, much harder for me to find activity on topics I'm interested in. If you're outside of Lemmy's handful of interests, not just finding but even building topical discussion feels like a struggle.
Not everyone, but I do feel like I come across more people here who feel... allergic to nuance. Frankly, I think this might be less of a Reddit-vs-Lemmy thing and more of how just social media in general is shifting these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It’s much, much harder for me to find activity on topics I’m interested in. If you’re outside of Lemmy’s handful of interests, not just finding but even building topical discussion feels like a struggle.

You can have a look at [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The allergy to nuance thing, I get a lot of people who take me HYPER literally. Casual conversations become formal peer reviewed debates because at least ten Lemmyers were potty trained at gunpoint.