Man, y’all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.
What was I talkin’ about?
Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users
Submitted 7 hours ago by King@blackneon.net to [deleted]
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MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 6 hours 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 5 hours ago
same. only a matter of time till it happens here too
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 hours 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.)
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
this is actually what federation means to solve.
everyone can make their own lemmy!
thejoker954@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 hours 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???
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Matter of time?? The libs of reddit have been infestering here for awhile now
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
… and full of karma bots
… and using use input to train LLMs
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 hour 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!
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 58 minutes 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.
sparkles@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
I mean…yes. This is one of the things I imagine I would try if I ever had the equipment.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.
molten@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
Literally anybody who is part of any group ever:
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 minutes ago
Plenty of people on here who can’t be bothered to read past the first 8 words of a comment because their brain is so rotted by tiktok and browsing reddit by all to only read the headlines.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The irony is that reddit users would say the same about other people on other platforms.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.
Cattail@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
Me when I say I’m a reddit reject like the rest of lemmy
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Life’s hard enough as it is, one has to practice self love.
gdog05@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Seriously, who wouldn’t do this if we could?
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours 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.
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I don’t know whether my nose would be my organ of choice, but I otherwise agree.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You can’t?
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
If I could do that I wouldnt be wasting my time here.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
First thing this image makes me think of are Linux users
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s what OP said, Lemmy users.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
Toot that horn, little buddy.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
He can’t it has a giant elephant dick in it
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
are you smarter than
a 5th graderan ai prompterMastengwe@sh.itjust.works 55 minutes ago
I’ve heard the differences as:
“Lemmy is where dumbasses go to act smart, and Reddit is where smartasses go to act dumb.”
Damage@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
But that’s Mastodon’s mascot!
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
For Mastodon, this is no metaphor, just a fetish
rook@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Ah yes well rounded with the 5 essential daily content groups: Linux, comics, Star Trek, lefty or tankie politics, and of course beans.
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 54 minutes ago
Last time I saw this joke, comics weren’t on the list. We did it Reddit!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Swap out beans for bacon and it’s slashdot in its prime, minus the libertarians.
khepri@lemmy.world 3 hours 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 53 minutes ago
We got the shitty power mods down though
Looking at you Dessalines, JordanLund, FlyingSquid, DraconicNEO
blarghly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Tbf, a lemmy user is far less likely to be a bot, so… yes?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 15 minutes ago
Beep Boop
Yes I am a human
Beep
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 46 minutes ago
How do you know?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
this is a shit post.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 hours 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 hours ago
I’m pretty sure that’s another symptom of Eternal September.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I have something more substantial…
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Drugs and Alcohol?
magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 hours 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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Colonial Americans saying they’re smarter than the British.
“Dude, you were British, we all were!”
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Smart enough to stop being British
db2@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
points at the usa president in 2025
Smart? Not even remotely.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 6 hours ago
Lemmy users are just Reddit users but displaced.
danc4498@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Do elephants do this?
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 6 hours ago
No, every elephant I’ve ever met doesn’t use Lemmy.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
haven’t got opposable thumbs, have they?
RacerX@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
They do but first they need to have to get a rib removed
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 hours 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 hours 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 2 hours ago
Those were covered by the first clause “A lot of them are (smarter than reddit users)”
fonix232@fedia.io 6 hours 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 3 hours 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!
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
It was better when the liberal Reddit refugees screaming their anti-communist/anti-DPRK/Russophobic/Sinophobic bull weren’t here. Thank fuck for .ml keeping them mostly at bay LMBO
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Tautologically we are though. Staying on reddit is stupid.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s probably true. They’re at least not as brainwashed and irreparably fucked in the head as many Redditors, since they turned that site into thinly-veiled Stormfront (I guess Anglo-Saxon/Western restless rage was brewing there but Trump made it all look okay?) and they seem to be okay with it. 🤷
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 33 minutes ago
Auto-Fellatio Elephant on my home feed. What a day!