Life’s hard enough as it is, one has to practice self love.
Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users
Submitted 6 days ago by King@blackneon.net to [deleted]
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TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
gdog05@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Seriously, who wouldn’t do this if we could?
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I don’t know whether my nose would be my organ of choice, but I otherwise agree.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 days ago
As someone who was more flexible as a teenager, let me tell you that it feels a lot more like performing the act, rather than having the act performed on you.
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I like sucking dick but I also know there are a lot of people with dicks who don’t and one of the things I’ve heard from people who have succeeded performing autofellatio is that it feels more like sucking a dick than it does getting your dick sucked. Honestly, hearing this just makes me want to do it more.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You can’t?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Toot that horn, little buddy.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 5 days ago
He can’t it has a giant elephant dick in it
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 5 days ago
First off, we don’t know how giant that elephant dick is. And two, why are you dick shaming the elephant? What did they ever do to you?
Aneb@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that you can post this without getting shadowed banned
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just normal banned.
Damage@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
But that’s Mastodon’s mascot!
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
For Mastodon, this is no metaphor, just a fetish
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge… which I can’t claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit’s variety of topics to include… I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don’t think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.
Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you’ll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D
So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!
mirshafie@europe.pub 5 days ago
I’m new here but this reminds me a lot of what reddit was like around 2008. I and lots of people came from slashdot, to be able to talk about things other than computers. So everyone is a nerd that cares about data and wants to have a genuine conversation, and I think that makes my experience more intelligent because it becomes less about winning by drowning interesting topics with the same rehashed jokes or tropes, and more about formulating your own thoughts as best you can.
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 5 days ago
Lemmy also tends towards misogyny and truscum attitudes moreso than Reddit. There are great instances like blahaj or zip where that’s not the case, but on Lemmy it’s not feasible to only view posts on subscribed communities, while on Reddit it is. And that means it’s easier to build a progressive feed on Reddit.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Also one of the Lemmy lead devs is transphobic.
Given that lemmy is far from transphobic this fact could be seen as a positive.
Rohy91@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You mean anti mental illness normalization?🤔
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Spot on diagnosis medic.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Man, y’all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.
What was I talkin’ about?
blarghly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Tbf, a lemmy user is far less likely to be a bot, so… yes?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Beep Boop
Yes I am a human
Beep
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
How do you know?
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If I could do that I wouldnt be wasting my time here.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To be honest, I need something more substantial, but I haven’t found where to go after we lost forums
db2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m pretty sure that’s another symptom of Eternal September.
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
Auto-Fellatio Elephant on my home feed. What a day!
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The irony is that reddit users would say the same about other people on other platforms.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 days ago
When the other platforms were twitter and facebook, it wasn’t really wrong either. The bar was just that low.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 6 days ago
I remember that. They never shutup about rick and Morty, and there was a whole community where they rated the smell of their own farts.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Get with the times, it’s all about ‘I Think You Should Leave’ now.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Tbf biggest reddit communuties are gaming ones and biggest lemmu communities are programming ones.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
thats because lemmy is new and niche. when reddit started it was all star trek programing and other nerd shit too
Lightfire228@pawb.social 5 days ago
But… But programming is fun…
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 days ago
A decade ago, My nephew asked me what my Reddit name was. He was 9 years old. I looked at his old comments, and he was a pretty active Redditor on gaming subreddits.
It was then that I stopped trusting the numbers of comments on posts as a signal of popularity.
sparkles@piefed.zip 6 days ago
I mean…yes. This is one of the things I imagine I would try if I ever had the equipment.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You don’t have both a nose and dangle long enough? Please answer us that you do not regardless of your bait and tackle situation, I’m not feeling like getting jealous
sparkles@piefed.zip 6 days ago
Uh well I’ve got a clam. But I think if I had bait and tackle?? I’d have many things to try. Including working on my flexibility.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 days ago
Explain this image dot com
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
ONE ELEPHANT HAS HIS TRUNK UP ANOTHER ELEPHANT’S ASS. OSTENSIBLY TO EAT HIS SHIT. THE OTHER ELEPHANT REALLY SEEMS TO BE ENJOYING IT.
khepri@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I do feel like I have more authentic interactions on here. It’s hard not to see how much more heavily a huge platform like reddit is botted and astroturfed, and controlled by a handful of owners, mods and powerusers compared to the nascent fediverse. Not that we don’t have those things here too, I think Lemmy just hasn’t had a high enough profile, yet, to warrant much attention from the same bad actors who run vast portions of reddit, X, and facebook.
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 5 days ago
We got the shitty power mods down though
Looking at you Dessalines, JordanLund, FlyingSquid, DraconicNEO
Ledivin@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Careful - criticizing FlyingSquid in any way tends to lead to a ban.
Rohy91@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Nope. Once it picks up traction it will eventually be controlled by the powers that be to stop “hate speech” and we’ll have to go somewhere else. It’s the circle of the internet 🥹
khepri@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You, sir, are obviously not thinking of the children /s
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
I’m sure there is a Mastodon joke in there somewhere.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 days ago
Lost in transition (to Postgres)
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You think if I could do that I’d be here?
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 days ago
You’d be showing off here, so yes
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
Yes and no - those posts would go on lemmynsfw, and AFAIK most lemmy server don’t federate with it.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 6 days ago
In my experience, Lemmy users generally seem to be more mature (with significant exceptions), but “mature” certainly isn’t a synonym for “smarter”.
Plus, reddit is SO EASY to make fun of. They might as well reward people with terrible ideas and their most obnoxious users. Spez, for example.
Rohy91@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
It’s just the program that America is run on. The social programming has specific guidelines.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Two things can be true at once
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lemmy Users are just a subset of Reddit Users who couldn’t stop picking up aggro from the mods
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Or came over during the API bullshit
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Idk I’m certain I’m at least smarter than the half of reddit users that are LLMs and thus cannot count the number of Rs in any given fruit.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Colonial Americans saying they’re smarter than the British.
“Dude, you were British, we all were!”
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Smart enough to stop being British
db2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
points at the usa president in 2025
Smart? Not even remotely.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 days ago
First thing this image makes me think of are Linux users
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s what OP said, Lemmy users.
Buffy@libretechni.ca 5 days ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Actually how big is an elephant cock?
Ah, 3 foot. Hope nobody check my browsing history today.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Did you see that one where an elephant uses his prehensile dingaling to scratch himself
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
A lot of them are, the ones that aren’t bots and propoganda alt accounts, but a lot of them are also only here because they would be / were banned from Reddit.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 days ago
Or left as Reddit burned down. Not everyone needed a ban to look elsewhere, we just needed an elsewhere to find.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Those were covered by the first clause “A lot of them are (smarter than reddit users)”
fonix232@fedia.io 6 days ago
Given that Reddit started banning people left and right, I don't think the "banned from Reddit" bagde is one of shame.
taiyang@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Just sounds like we’re the Australia of the Social Media world. Exiled from Reddit and the rest? Check out Lemmy- we aren’t the dark web, we promise!
molten@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Literally anybody who is part of any group ever:
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It really depends on which time period you mean.
2010 reddit users? Pretty smart. Lemmy today feels kind of like 2010 reddit.
Reddit today? Well…it’s bots.
danc4498@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Do elephants do this?
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 6 days ago
Lemmy users are just Reddit users but displaced.
rook@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Lemmy users are smarter, because they literally got off the bandwagon and followed what they believed in.
Active users not reactive. And that is not only when using platforms. People that use Lemmy and well rounded.
It’s like an oasis that is free to enter, but only for those that realized they were in a cage.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I don’t feel smug because I left Reddit. I feel sad that it turned into a vapid, sterile mockery of itself and I stopped having fun there. I like fun places. And I lost one.
big_slap@lemmy.world 6 days ago
same. only a matter of time till it happens here too
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)
thejoker954@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Its kind of already happening here - just for different reasons.
There is very little engagement on Lemmy besides in a few communities. What little engagement there is - is driven by a few users.
Even broad conversion topics get very little engagement.
I get not everyone wants to be a topic “starter” (i know I don’t), but they can’t even bother to either:
1: just post a tiny comment (look at “what are you watching” in the movies / TV subs on piefed.Social; seems like a real easy topic for anyone to engage in and yet there’s only ever like 10 posts and zero upvotes)
2: upvote topics or posts; While the points don’t matter - they still show and promote engagement.
Its honestly rather frustrating.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ve just recently moved, and I barely see any difference. Same US politics dawn to dusk, just more Linux and commies.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
this is actually what federation means to solve.
everyone can make their own lemmy!
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 6 days ago
oh thats rich- have you thought about how it’s essentially criminal to post about what you just posted about instead of making a post about how you are pessimistic about one of the problems facing humanity???
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Voat was setup to be a one-to-one clone of reddit, minus any moderation and it failed because it was one-to-one. Lemmy/federation is functionally different.
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Matter of time?? The libs of reddit have been infestering here for awhile now
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
… and full of karma bots
… and using use input to train LLMs
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 5 days ago
Not antagonistically speaking here.
Do you think your input is not being used to train LLMs when posting on Lemmy? It’s publicly visible without an account.
I’d be shocked if there wasn’t either a scraper, or a whole federated instance, that was harvesting lemmy comments for the big ai companies.
The only difference is that no one is trying to make money off providing that content to them. A big part of the reddit exodus was that reddit started charging for api calls to make cash off the AI feeding frenzy, which broke tools the users liked. With lemmy, there’s no need for a rent-seeking middle man.
bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I notice because people are fishing for karma point there are a lot less pointless posts on Lemmy than Reddit. Some people post questions that Google Search & Ai can answer faster. I understand asking if you looking for an opinion. IDK I kike it here.