A little maybe, but not much.

I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.

It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.

  • alexquiniou@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    2 天前

    Not true for me.

    I made a joke, and someone got upset. I explained that I didn’t mean it seriously and apologized. Then they told me they were in a bad mood and apologized for their reaction.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    331·
    2 天前

    ffs, Lemmy’s strength is in it’s decentralised non corpo design, not that we users are a better quality of human. It went from Usenet, to the centralised shitiness of Reddit back to a decentralised system in Lemmy/Piefed more akin to Usenet

    but, I’d also argue just by being here you’re a better person.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    2 天前

    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

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    2 天前

    Excellent unpopular opinion that I disagree with! Good post for here :3

    On Reddit, I was CONSTANTLY annoyed in every thread.

    Award edits: annoying.

    Talking about awards and upvotes: annoying.

    Spamming subreddits as hashtags: annoying. Rehashing the same phrase/joke over and over again: annoying.

    Fake stories in all top subreddits in /all/ used as creative writing before LLMs made even being CREATIVE obsolete yet the site was clogged with bullshit and hundreds (if not thousands) of people responding as if the stories are real: annoying.

    (More recently, as of when I left Reddit when the API change was made) Majority of people bots or astroturfers/shills/etc: annoying.

    I constantly was shitting in comments and people on Reddit because so many comments were just… so… horribly… stupid! Asinine! Coming from a history of communities of folks that, while being overtly overwhelmingly dumb/offensive, were at least original or creative (IRC/Usenet/LUE/SA/b/specific forums) in their commenting and posts, near the end of Reddit’s life I felt like I had to dig through more oceans of shit to find a tiny gold nugget than I did when I was heavy into /b/ in the early-to-mid 2000s.

    I find that Lemmy threads have an expectantly smaller quantity of idiots, rehashed ‘clever’ one-liners in every thread, ‘creative’ writing that isn’t creative in the slightest, and overall garbage commenters. Better shitposters, more furries, better grammar, and more organic stuff overall.

    That’s my opinion, anyway. Your post has a lot of downvotes for a “popular” “unpopular opinion” post here which tells me you’ve posted a good one hahaha. I do agree with some of what you’ve said—I’d like some places I can post and read some more crunchy-ass shit. Not stuff like being racist “as a joke”, but with the way the fediverse is, I’d like some NSFL stuff and places where people can be free to be more crude or whatnot. Lemmy is very “safe”, which is healthy for a lot of folks. Overall though, I’ll take “safe” over “enragingly annoying everywhere” hahaha

  • Syltti@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 天前

    Lemmy was never going to be a better community than reddit, because it’s still redditors leaving reddit to come here. People were the problem with reddit, people are the problem with Lemmy.

    That was always a given.

  • crypt0cler1c@infosec.pubEnglish
    17·
    2 天前

    The userbase is largely overlapping as most Lemmy users are current or former Reddit users. The difference is largely in the communities and moderation, not users…

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 小时前

    I came to lemmy thinking it would be a space for old school pre corporate internet users. A place where people wanted to create something that was primarily leftist who wanted to work towards what we once had. Instead it was the opposite of that.

    Lemmy seems like a place where people just want to recreate corporate spaces. People here don’t want to change anything instead they want to solidify the stuff that already doesn’t work. As long as you can sell these communities to advertisers then they’re happy as can be.

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      71·
      3 天前

      The bots are showing up heavy in the last few days. It annoys me greatly since it dilutes the quality posts in my feed that generate discussion. It’s a bunch of shitty memes and cartoons and it’s awful.

      Good thing we can just block it and get our feed back.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        182·
        3 天前

        Yeah I have noticed a ton of posting here that reads like it’s an edgelording 12 year old, that is either really stupid and then attacks anyone who replies to their stupid post with facts and reasonable replies. Often with a extremist/insane take or a really inane and stupid one.

        That wasn’t happening in '25 that I really noticed.

      • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        3 天前

        It’s a bunch of shitty memes and cartoons and it’s awful.

        Always has been.jpg

      • No1@aussie.zoneEnglish
        31·
        2 天前

        I had to block a bunch of meme communities when I first joined to make lemmy usable for me.

        No offence to anyone who enjoys memes or the below, just I prefer lemmy with less lols

        HTH

        Blocked Communities

        • Memes@lemmy.ml
        • Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world
        • ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        • Risa@startrek.website
        • memes@lemmy.world
        • 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        • 196@lemmy.world
        • Memes@sopuli.xyz
        • Comic Strips@lemmy.world
        • Science Memes@mander.xyz
        • Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml
        • Programmer Humor@programming.dev
        • Political Memes@lemmy.world
        • linuxmemes@lemmy.world
        • NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works
        • ich_iel@feddit.org
    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      328·
      3 天前

      lemmy world that you are on is full of influence agents, many of which are bots/chatbots, I noticed them pumping up support for the Iran war.

      • Hamartia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        256·
        3 天前

        There’s a dozen or so that post constant propaganda against countries that don’t conform to US interests. Their approach is so similar that it’s hard to believe there isn’t something that links the accounts.

        This type of behaviour is discoverable. There are probably much more subtle campaigns ongoing too. I’m undecided as to whether it is just the efforts of some ‘centrist’ zealots or there are some actual spooks in here.

        • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          3 天前

          There’s also a certain type of person that just… posts that shit. I’m not saying they’re bots or not bots or any damn thing, because there’s tons of bot spam anyway, but I think you’re underestimating how intensely shit some people’s meme game is

          • fireweed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 天前

            I feel like the “hilarious chaos” instance was (is? iirc .world defederated from them so idk if they’re still around) like that. They were already starting from behind with such a try-hard name, and then most of their posts were Facebook-level crap. I ran into them a lot browsing all top-hour, and my impression was that the posters were trying but had a… less refined palate than the average Lemmy user.

        • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          102·
          3 天前

          It’s both. The government pays for this type of thing. It’s not just me that noticed it either. With chatbots it’s never been cheaper to run these either, and apparently they do bother with little old lemmy, although it’s nothing like reddit which is owned by them and corporate influence ops.

        • Tonava@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          43·
          2 天前

          Oh don’t forget the tankies pushing russian (and chinese) propaganda. I can never tell are they bots or useful idiots, but I always know when I hit the nail in the head when I criticize russian propaganda and get a lot of downvotes

    • Karl@literature.cafeOPEnglish
      32·
      3 天前

      Yea, I’m grateful for that. But the humans are pretty awful too sometimes.

      I just blocked one of those right in this post. Idk if you can see his comment anymore. His username was something like fisting lover.

    • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
      67·
      3 天前

      While reddit does have a not problem there are loads of people, people who LARP being some minority, and people posting thinly veiled fetish content on e.g. AITA. But bots certainly make up a higher percentage over there.

      Here we got tankies, blind hate for anything done by america and lack of nuance. But the latter is just common.

  • FortyTwo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    2 天前

    I don’t use Lemmy much anymore nowadays because of this. While it’s important an alternative to Reddit exists, so I try to support it, it ironically feels more like a hivemind than Reddit does (ironic because you’d expect the opposite for federated services). I think it’s because switching to Lemmy from Reddit requires either idealism or a Reddit ban, both of which disproportionately attract people who feel good when they verbally attack internet strangers for disagreeing with them on 1% of the implicitly agreed upon joint viewpoints. It also strangely reminds me of the feeling I got being part of an old gaming community that was slowly dying out, where eventually only the unpleasant ones who defined their identity based on it were left.

    I’m always happy to see there are also people here who dislike this attitude, though, or even to see neutral posts. There is still hope!