100% of the users here are reddit refugees. I don't know why anyone would assume the vibe of the platform to be any different. In many ways this place even manages to out-reddit reddit.

I came back here after a long time and i had the same feeling. I think has more to do with the level of the discussion at large nowadays, more than the platform itself.

Just use the block filter, after that ....

Block posters, communities, and keywords. And if you want to combat the perceived Reddit content, be the change and post what you think would counter it.

I've seen more pedantic bad-faith comments recently. I don't know if there are more, or if I'm just more aware of them.

And my axe!

I came from reddit 2 or 3 years ago now and i think most others are the same. Idk about all of a sudden. Its had the same undertones for a while now if you ask me and i think it grows along with the more people that join. As for politics I got tired of that the year before the last election. I invested some time into filters with certain words. Some stuff still slips by, but i am fine with seeing a few things.

Personally I can't wait for more of that, the one thing this place lacks is the smaller unique communities that bring a lot of great obscure information to the table.

I've noticed a lot more right-wing "just asking questions!" type comments lately but chalk it up to there being an election this year and the right spreading their plague around social media.

If I see anything resembling politics I block it, immediately.

You can take the user out of reddit etc

Not recently or suddenly, no, but I also go out of my way to shovel that shit away from the "front page" in much the same way you'd feel about shovelling shitty slushy snow at the ass end of winter. It is inherently a Reddit knockoff populated mostly with people who either are politically opposed "enough" to Reddit to actually do something about it, people who got banned, or both. A large proportion of the activity here is bot posts, from Reddit. It follows that shit's going to be... reddit-y.

To address the political spam firehose, look into making adblocker filters based around the obvious keywords, I've been planning to do that for a while since Lemmy, rather conspicuously, only lets you block things in ways that suck. Worse than discord, over here.

I haven't noticed but I tend to stay in my subs.

About your facist comment.

Are you saying 1. Claiming a Muslim person can be bad is facist. Or 2. Are you saying being an Atheist is facist?

I've been here for a few years. There are waves of them. If something bad's happened over there, or some federation post has gotten a lot of attention, and a bunch of users migrate, this place is more Reddit-like for a couple of weeks until they either get accustomed or go back.

I have come to expect politics with debates against propensities as they come up on these (or any) social platforms. Thats just how forums have always been since it was referred to as bulletin boards back in the 90s. Reddit didnt invent that. Thats just human behaviour where people bat these things around and see what they can get away with. and trolls exist everywhere.

The thing that would make a platform reddit-y flavoured would be if it sold out to a large corporation, replaced mods with bots and celebrate a bunch of wife beating/federation/minority hunting subs and banned you for not liking it. That flavour is so very specific to reddit it's considered a lesson in dark social experiments.

I haven’t seen a lemmy user ask if they were the asshole for having a boundary

There are probably fewer than 10% of leftists in the West overall, even fewer in America, and for anyone outside of the West being a "leftist" just means having a modicum of humanity and caring about justice. Any Anglo site will inevitably be filled with average Anglos, and the average Anglo man is, well, you know. Just be happy they're not a majority here, not yet at least. 🤷‍♂️

About the fascism thing: That's how this place always was. It's particularly obvious on European instances (at least from the perspective of this 2023 Reddit refugee).

The "car guys" thread where people are talking about "nice exhaust" and "connection to the vehicle" definitely gives off reddit vibes. Even Facebook vibes tbh.