I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.
i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
When people are rude to me here, which I admit is rarer than on Reddit, I block them a lot faster. Maybe that sort of goes against what you’re saying because it means I’m less tolerant here than I was on Reddit, but I am determined to make Lemmy a more pleasant experience for myself.
Tbh I never really commented or upvoted anything on reddit. I was always a lurker but when I started with the fediverse I feel like I can actually interact for some reason
Same! I used Infinity for Reddit without an account for a few years until the whole API controversy. The fediverse is more niche and caters more to my interests, so kinda glad that all happened tbh.
The Fediverse is still new and also confusing for a lot of folks. As it grows we will see more trolls and bots. Hopefully we all learn from the mistakes made with Reddit but for now, we should enjoy the calm and try to make it a good/better experience.
What fascinates me is how big the hurdles were even after I was fully sold on the idea and wanted to participate. Even when going out of my way to look for fediverse stuff and wanting to look for instances to join, there was no guidance. The first info I got was highly technical info on the protocols themselves. That would turn most people away immediately. This was many months ago though, it seems to be getting better every day as more people participate and contribute.
Edit: I forgot to add my theory to this, which is that non-capitalist entities don’t have the same compulsion towards growth, so they don’t emphasise the onboarding process the way capitalists will.
I fully expect though that as centralised capitalist social media continues to implode it will give way to the fediverse which seems better at building something more robust and long-lasting, and eventually it will gain the network advantage where people join because that’s where everybody else already is.
I get the same sense. It has somewhat of a nostalgic “we’re all in this together” feeling that using the internet in the mid/late-90’s had, and the updoots appear to be a side-effect of that.
Yeah I scrolled by one of those with bare genitalia in full view while waiting in my doctor’s office. It would be nice to establish a NSFW spoiler tag as like… just common courtesy. Even reddit followed that rule most of the time.
omg omg two spaces after a “.” unacceptable. My disapointment is immesurable and quite frankly my day is ruined. /s (I know that it can be old-school formality, and honestly I don’t really care, just jokin’)
I find that, for no apparent reason, I keep getting those double spaces after periods, but only when on lemmy, and only on my phone, meaning somehow lemmy breaks my autocorrect
I got a “who asked” amongst more productive banter this morning and I actually laughed and said “thank god, people can talk without a filter”.
I’m okay with some stuff being toxic. Reddits moderation rules were so restricting that you couldn’t have a genuine conversation or sometimes just post something that was clearly originally intended to be posted to a sub; moderation was too tight.
Freedom of speech shouldn’t be inconvenienced by a fedora wearing subreddit mod. And if one Lemmy instance does, there’s others you can enjoy!
This is why I started to hate reddit, even before the big API fiasco. It’s clear all that was making it to the front page was the same liberal-pandering bullshit… I don’t mind seeing a little shad thrown at one side or the other every now and then, but when it’s every 5 posts and it’s always just 1 sides opinion it’s incredibly annoying! I was already looking for other sources of entertainment. I’m kinda glad I found Lemmy. It’s been a really cool experience so far.
Disagreement and acceptance of controversial but well thought out opinions is really good here. I’ve seen it sour a little over the last few days, but considering just how contentious the overall topics themselves were, that’s perhaps reasonable.
What I can say with certainty however is that even those I have most vehemently disagreed with seem like good people at the end of the day. They aren’t bigoted trash nor do they delight in people’s suffering. If I had interacted with them in another space, I couldn’t have guessed we’d disagree so bitterly.
It’s refreshing. On Reddit, the person/bot/shill would just consistently be awful. Here, I can have intense arguments with people about global issues but I can also see myself grabbing a casual beer with them afterwards.
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