Reddit has a perverse incentive to keep the user base frothing for engagement

There is no such incentive on Lemmy. We are toxic because we choose to be. All natural, free range, grassroots haters

tankies, and conservatives, especially anything support russia, israel and the CCP. i block these accounts, and any account that calls out people for erroneous anti-semitism, when its not. PLUS people who make judgy comments, or “actually” responses followed by a personal attack too, my favorite is almost always things involving christianity. still significantly better than reddit, since you will be bombarded by bots, or propaganda accounts to. or they have people brigading you.

Most people are here because we were perma-banned from reddit. So basically all the worst people from Reddit come here 😄

So far I’m having a lovely experience

It’s much calmer

Lemmy is hostile to nazis. Reddit coddles them.

No, they’re not. The hivemind isn’t as bad. But there’s brigading of sorts, plenty of trolls, circlejerking, bad mods, and bad faith arguing.

I mean, that’s pretty much the internet in general, just reddit’s got much more of it by the numbers.

I’m sure it’s already been said a few times, but with few exceptions Lemmy/mbin/etc. users ARE redditors, or recently former redditors who, for historical and practical reasons, are more likely to be interested in

• Open source software
• Alternative social web
• Privacy
• Left wing politics (especially early on)

While that applies to me to varying degrees, I must acknowledge that it means we’re probably sometimes going to be difficult and slow to assume good faith. I try not to be that way, it’s the only thing I can do. I think the left wing politics/parapolitics is better than the usual right wing variety that was common on other reddit alternatives, but that’s my bias.

Going off track… the best feature here is that you can block users. Catch about 10 “big fish” and you’ll find that it’s much more normal around here. 0.1% of users create 90% of the drama and squabbling.

People are people, wherever you go. People are flawed. There are many good reasons to leave reddit for lemmy.

I’d say its worse, because a lot of the chill niches have not migrated over.

That’s because most of them are redditers

Definitely felt smaller and somewhat colder when initially switching. Normally smaller communities are nicer? Educated guess suggests a lot of autism going on in our core membership, it’s a high tech early-adopter crowd, not always known to be the warmest and fuzziest of individuals. Personally I decided, fuck it, I’ll just be my weird self and people can cope. Ignore it when you occasionally get downvoted to shit, it’s just a feature of Lemmy.

It’s really cool how you can get downvoted here for saying genocide is bad.

A sizable chunk of lemmings are people banned from Reddit for one reason or another.

Because of the federated way lemmy works it’s incredibly easy for toxic users to migrate and continue being a nuisance.

Less bots, more tankies.

I’m not sure which is worse.