• treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Fairly different hivemind here, I think. Still annoying at times but for different reasons. Individuals seem more likely to engage on a topic though. Maybe without instantly thinking you’re their enemy.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      01·
      1 month ago

      “hivemind” is such a stupid bullshit concept. the only people who use it just don’t like being disagreed with. if you use the term “hivemind” you might as well be a reddit conservative

        • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
          02·
          1 month ago

          Congrats on being an exception to the penulatimate part of your comment then? My point is that “hivemind” is already a thought-terminating cliche. If you’re using it while seeking in-depth conversation, what do you expect to get? Hence me saying you “might as well be” such as such – which is very different from treating you like an enemy. Seems like you gave a bit of that hostility back though! And why? Because this conversation revolves around a thought-terminating cliche like “hivemind”.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
    1·
    1 month ago

    I actually think it’s way more like 4chan than reddit.

    Niche threads are small handful of people every time, people feel pretty safe to get nasty really quick, and wild mix of people thinking it’s their safe space full of people that agree with them entirely from anarchists to fascists.
    Also likely to see a random porn or furry post.

    • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      You can just turn on the NSFW filter for your main feed. Removes pretty much everything except the “moe” communities.

      Sidenote: you Moe people are weird af. Please tag your communities as NSFW. I would honestly rather have someone look over my shoulder and see a hardcore gangbang post than see me looking at fully clothed anime girls.

        • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Moe is when you take your fetish/the type of girl you like, then draw an anime girl about it. But the girl is cute, not sexy, and fully clothed and doing normal, not sexy things. It is very weird. I do not understand this level of sexual repression. It feels like the online porn art equivalent of getting a human shaped pillow to hug while you sleep at night.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    No ads, no tracking, that’s exclusive to Lemmy and I would like it for that alone.

    People (aka, in Reddit language, ‘content’ or ‘the stuff we write but they earn money with’) are the same everywhere, I mean assholes and nice guys are not exclusive to any platform. There are just a lot less of us here than on Reddit. So, there is a lot less noise.

    Plus we have decent filtering tools, so we can even have less noise ;)

    Lemmy is tiny compared to Reddit and the niche communities I’m interested in are not very active but I don’t care. I will keep posting here and not on Reddit as long as they won’t change what I disagree with (which won’t happen).

  • happydoors@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    From what I’ve experienced, it feels toxic in a bizarre liberal, Linux-nerd white knight kindof way. Which I think almost wraps back around to not being toxic at all and just feeling friendly in a passive aggressive way? Like going to a computer convention held on a hot, sunny beach. Sure, every here mostly agrees and likes the same geeky stuff but we can easily be too cranky about it, one way or another. Lemmy seems way more likely to engage in real conversation in comments and not just one-line jokes than Reddit. People seem more passionate about their hobbies or viewpoints. More likely to help if asked directly and detailed in response. It’s a cool place!

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    0·
    1 month ago

    I dunno, I mean, I never saw such an obsession with beans on reddit.

    Whether that’s a better, different kind of shitposting or exactly the same kind of shitposting is up to you.