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I left reddit with the API changes. Obviously, Lemmy isn't as good as reddit in many ways. It's still young and is much, much less popular. There's not a super niche community for everything like there is on Reddit. But the people on Lemmy are so much better. And the people on Reddit were honestly a pretty significant reason why I left too. The people here are just so much better to interact with most of the time. Glad you're here.
I didn’t realize how bad Reddit had gotten until I tried Lemmy. It got toxic slowly enough that it snuck up on me. I’ll never go back.
I had to look something up and the answer was in Reddit. After I found what I was looking for I scrolled through my old subscribed communities and saw so much toxicity,. Not just in the people but the things I was subscribed to, r/relationships, AITA, even some of askReddit, it made me feel gross thinking that's what I scrolled through and interacted with every day.
It’s so much better (and easier, once you get used to it) to just give people the benefit of the doubt.
I think I read somewhere that Lemmy users are, on average, a bit older than Reddit users. To me, that just means that we’re more likely to have seen the worst that the web has to offer, and don’t want to reproduce it. Of course, we can still be trolls and idiots; it’s just less prevalent.
In my experience, people here are nicer than the people in, for example, r/politics. However, that's not saying much. I never commented in r/politics. I only commented in those niche communities that don't exist here and Lemmy is a big step down compared to them in terms of the quality of the discourse. (It helped that the communities I participated in would ban people for being rude.)
That's fair. I don't think it's really that the discourse is lower quality on the niche subjects but rather that it just doesn't exist most of the time. One of the consequences of being an early adopter.
Honestly when I used to used reddit during 2023 it was so toxic holy hell people here are so much nicer
It's so nice. I think it's because we're all early adopters.
Yeah lemmy is not that big compared to reddit
And it additionally has the benefit of all the instances. It makes it a lot harder for toxic people to amass as folks can spin up a new instance if it starts looking bad
Yeah but there is 2 instances that I don't like lemmy grad and hexbears
Unfortunately that is the downside. The toxic people can also make their own instance
That's an upside, be because it makes them easy to block
But you can also just block that instance.
yeah
For real, the userbase on Reddit was declining in quality for quite a long time, and that decline sharply increased (imo) after the Sacking of the API - largely because TONS of power users, especially in highly technical subs, were like “nah fuck this” and left (and, you know, stopped developing moderation tooling because Reddit effectively blocked non-tech-savvy users from using said tools with the API pricing change).