I also have that perception. When people disagree, instead of becoming toxic, they stay oddly cool and nice to each other here. Let´s hope this lasts when more and more reddit users join ....

Nah, the main internet hive minds still exist.

I’m frequently downvoted for saying anything positive about my Tesla.

more genous with upvotes than reddit.

Why would you care about fake points, lmao

Im still finding it a strange world to be part of

I still type shitty things. But then I stop and rephrase in a more human way.

I disagree, but I uovoted you anyway. ;-)

Then you haven't posted enough and/or love the "herd mentality" -- it's my 1 month in and I already been massively downvoted twice by randoms with multiple accounts.

I find that Lemmy users are more likely to engage in earnest and once it started getting a flood of new users from Reddit it didn’t change. This combined with the fact that it suddenly had more content I was interested in convinced me to stop being a lurker and try to add something to the whole.

Reddit is a cesspit, so glad I discovered the fediverse. This guys skits sums up Reddit perfectly.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8RGqrqv/

For the most part, yes. But I have noted lately that I do get some snarky people coming in with dishonest and bad faith responses. They're at least not as rampant as it would've been on Reddit. It's discouraging and demoralizing when you've got, what feels like, 100 people downvoting you to hell and 50 of them are swiping at you before deleting their accounts and doing it again because they're of the tribal mindset and you've somehow offended a part of the hive.

Going to add some negativity here and sorry in advance. I'm hoping I'm being more sensible than mean. The biggest problem with lemmy for my personal experience is that there are are too many posts about itself. We have enough users to thrive as something good. Let's just do it and enjoy moving on from reddit. If new people come here and all they see are posts about lemmy, fediverse, reddit, they will feel like it's one note, but I feel like we all have more to offer. I think when there's some news or something that impacts the platform it's great to discuss. (Or if there are discussions around actual development and stuff.) In my opinion, there are just far too many.:"Lemmy people are less toxic", "isn't it nice here", "reddit is not as good", "lemmy just feels fresh","loving lemmy so far vs x". clogging the feed with low quality content. I just feel there are already enough existing posts people can comment on instead of starting new posts. I know the platform is new so it's to be expected, and I don't think negatively of anyone making these posts (i usually think positively of them as nice people), but if I didn't think it was actually hurting first impressions I wouldn't say anything.

Typically, yes, but the brigaders have found their way here, so don't expect it to last long.

I know right! I often get more than 5 upvotes here, while on Reddit most of my comments would have only gotten 2, maybe 3.

Mods are certainly nicer, that's for sure, and thus far, except in in ugly instances, everyone here has been intelligent and thoughtful, even in disagreement.

I think that federation here really helps - seems like the toxicity seems naturally get siloed as instances defederate from bad actors and users are blocked, and it really dilutes the impact a power-tripping mod can have on content, as it's far to easy to find another relevant community or instance that will accept your post.

I find everyone more open to discussion here and not snippy.

I wonder if it was just that Reddit was really polarized by the The Donald segment of its population and what happened with that community,, which don't seem to have come over here, since that made things rather hostile on Reddit. Whatever we are politically here seems to be pretty quiet this far, other than agreeing the insane stuff Republicans are doing in the US.

I agree! It’s our choice what we want the culture to be around here. We can make it a friendly one :-).

Agreed! Found some bad apples here and there lately, but in general people are nicer and more civil.

I've already seen some, lets say disagreeable people floating around, but the moderators seem to be doing well to take care of it. Nothing is wrong with someone that has an opposing view, but being unnecessarily combative or straight up an asshole is too much.