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Damn, I thought lemmy would be better than easily swallowed obvious ragebait, but, I suppose, such is the modern internet.
Why would it be better im any way? It's the same thing. It's not some elite social media or something.
I thought it would be better cause it's defederated, but I also kind of just thought, more than that, that the crowd lemmy attracts would be more discerning than they are. My faith in the userbase was misplaced, though, and I suppose, ultimately, this place is really just reddit 2.0, with all of the inherent incentive structure issues that go along with such a thing.
defederation is not a magic word
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People are shit regardless of where you are on the internet, so this narrative that lemmy is better than anywhere else is just, silly imo.
For some time it was. People wrote longer, more elaborate posts and were overall a lot less aggressive.
I only lurked on a smaller Lemmy instance before the great Reddit exodus, but even in the first few months when people started pouring in, it still was like that. It became more and more like Reddit over time.
I wonder what exactly makes internet communities turn like that. What is the connection between having more people in one (online) space and it starting to get more and more toxic?
I joined Lemmy during the great Reddit exodus and I've been here pretty much since then and to be honest, I never really felt the difference between the two except user count, so it's interesting to hear other people's perspective such as yours.
As to your last point, I think there are a lot of factors, anonymity being the biggest one. Lack of social contracts being another. It's easier to be a jerk behind the screen where you don't have to actually face the real-life consequences of treating people poorly. Compound that with others who encourage and join in on the hate. Sometimes, it's deserved, though more often than not, it isn't. That's just my theory, though.
How many Lemmy users are there that never used reddit? Its just a circle inside another, larger, circle.
Bro, have you seen the front page. People post ragebait constantly. It's just typically "Boomers something something, Zoomers something something better." This is just misogynistic instead of ageist.