I had joined Reddit twice in my lifetime but was not actively using it, and maybe that’s the reason I’m not very familiar with this forum culture.
I would say that Lemmy is by far the most responsive SNS in terms of the community engagement that I’ve ever used.
I feel like Lemmy is substantially less combative. Reddit has become so very hostile over the years and every thread felt like someone was about to start a fight. Not that there isn’t any here, but there feels like a normal amount, rather than an over-representation of people spoiling for a fight.
Agree to disagree is the right value to embrace in this kind of situation I supposed.
I’ve said this exact thing a dozen times on here. Any time I’d get a reply notification on reddit, I’d go into it prepared for another senseless confrontation. I would fight with so many people on that platform, and I swear it made me an angrier person. Here, I still go into it half expecting the hostility, but replies are always in good spirit and pretty level-headed. I don’t fight with people on Lemmy.
That may depend on the community.
I have the opposite experience. I mostly post in niche communities on Reddit, and I find I’m ignored or get positive replies. On Lemmy I get responses, but odds are even that the response is snarky or bitchy.
I hope that will improve as the user base grows and we get more niche communities here.
Hey watch this:
Vote for Harris.
First Past the post voting is mathematically flawed and will always result in a two party system. With a more representative electoral system, people would be free to vote outside the two party system while still counting their vote against those they don’t want in office.
No spoiler effect, more democracy, more people involved in the political process, more then one chance to defeat the republicans, and giving republicansa chance to vote for a more moderate conservativeparty. Changing how we vote is a win win win win scenario.
Except for the legacy political parties of course, as they would now have to compete for your vote.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about Kamala Harris you little bitch? I’ll have you know she supports genocide, and has been involved in upholding a corrupt and punitive “justice” system, and she has over 1500 confirmed fuckups. I am trained in internet argumentation and I’m the top shitposter on the entire FBI watch list. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe your shit takes the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit on the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of leftists across the USA and your ignorance is being noted right now so you better prepare for the storm, liberal. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your opinion. You’re fucking dead wrong, kid. I can dismantle your argument anywhere, anytime, and I can do it in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with appeals to emotion. Not only am I extensively informed on this issue, but I have access to a cherry-picked list of facts that support my opinion and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable stance off the face of this forum, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead wrong, kiddo.
Edit: this is not directed at drag, hence the use of you/your
Thank you for respecting drag’s pronouns!