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It is the exact same as reddit, only there's less content and comments.
The people, mods, bots, and content are all just the same. There's even still people shilling covert adds on here. It's just cheaper and easier for them to get to the front page of lemmy, since you only need like 20 bot/fake accounts.
Generally good and I like it. My only complaint is that it feels a bit snobby with the discussions and fickle with the downvote button. Like, ok, I get you disagree, but you don't need to publish your book series in the comments section to express what could've been a short sentence. And why are y'all downvoting this cute puppy? And, oh god, the occasional sad asshole who'd rather have a dumpster fire than a cozy campfire.
Much ruder and angrier, and prone to accusations of fascism for any deviation from groupthink. Basically like Reddit but worse, and with less content. Never mind.
The cynicism is more annoying to me, but reddit had more of it, I didn't care much there though.
Good, unless you try and give an opinion on politics.
Agreed. Lemmy has exactly one political opinion, and woe betide any poor soul of another persuasion.
Otherwise the community is pretty great. Lots of good conversation with intelligent commenters.
Same with the ACAB crowd. Seems sweeping generalizations are completely fine as long as the hive-mind agrees.
And not that I’m defending cops at all. But I’m just very anti-“all” when it comes to defining issues.
Way more thoughtful and open to discussing matters.
Its okay but the issue I have is when I search for a community, 20+ communities show up of the same name in different instances.
I think Lemmy is great, don't get me wrong!
However, I have never quite seen such a depressing social media site in my life.
Maybe it's just me, but I've found the majority of the humor here is tinged with poisoned irony, misery, and helpless sadness.
I understand the whole "if we don't laugh over it, we'll cry about it"–thing, but, man.. I came for funny memes and found an ocean of sadness. Feels bad, man.
Not really a place to come to feel uplifted. Would love to see more wholly positive memes & interactions!
Generally better, but give it a minute.