Lemmy is a bit more open thanks for the modlog.

We literally don’t know how much is being censored and reddit because mods can remove anything they want without leaving evidence.

The obsession with Technology Connections seems to be unique to Lemmy. I think it’s memeified at this point!

I feel like it’s pretty similar but the low population makes it easier to spot repeat posters. Also I feel like the quality of answers tend to better (lengthier, more thought out, e.t.c)

It feels more tech-geeky leftist and less AITA fantasy text/AI generated nonsense spam driven

But still pretty similar otherwise

Lemmy is closer to what Reddit was 15 years ago, before the masses piled in and made Reddit literally average.

Most of us are Reddit refugees, so we’re bringing all that baggage with us, whether we want to or not.

The main draw of Lemmy for me is the feeling that I’m less exposed to the corporate BS.

Solely from the parts of the lemmyverse I frequent, yes definitely. People would think you’re quite silly if you talked like a redditor, even if they were too polite to openly mock you for it.

Reddit has a bunch of “call-and-response” sort of trigger words and phrases, along with canned responses to a situation, repeated in-jokes, etc which made a lot of the site feel bloated and samey. Definitely the comments are much sparser here but there’s none of that. Anytime I Google something and check a reddit thread for answers, I’m shocked at how easily any thread can turn into some blown up debate about something stupid. In general that doesn’t happen here.

On the other hand, this is a pretty leftists-only echo chamber which narrows perspective. I went to the no kings protest today. If you believe Lemmy, I should have brought thrifted clothes, a 3M respirator, milk of magnesia, a first aid kit, heat resistant gloves, etc. really what I needed was an energy drink because I got tired. Lemmy can get pretty up it’s own ass about the aesthetics of revolution.

like madlad, woosh, etc

I haven’t used Reddit for years, and I have no idea about those terms. If they’re a Reddit thing, I don’t recognise them.

Lemmy is also less tolerant of debate bros.

So yeah, they’re different

As a reddit refugee, we have a couple more or less similar mannerisms but the system is massively different. It is intrinsically anticapitalist, not easy to censor, resistant to eee attacks, etc. It is a revolutionary platform which the antithesis of modern reddit. Reddit has started out as true and good but it has been recuperated by capitalism. Lemmy (and all alternatives, as long as decentralized) is the natural successor of reddit.

I feel that it’s almost more personal here on Lemmy in the sense that things feel genuine. As opposed to Reddit where bullshit abounds.

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there’s so many similarities that they’re going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There’s still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

I can’t speak to the minutia but when I use Lemmy it just feels like a less popular Reddit to me. For me, that’s not a bad thing, just the vibe I get.

Well reddit is mostly bots and astroturfing. Lemmy seems to have more common sense.

I’ve found that people actually have civil conversations here. Someone states a fact, another person asks for backup, it’s provided and the person says thanks I didn’t know that. Yeah there are less people here but I would take quality over quantity any day.

Every subreddit has its own vibe. Some have fully transitioned here like linux and some of the meme sharing communities. Many have not. I cannot really think of communities on Lemmy that do not exist on Reddit.