Lemmy reminds me of old school BBS where actual discussion happened. I know it's been a shift for me where I actually have to think about a response and hold a discussion instead of just following the patterns. Not that I don't appreciate rote comments, it's nice to expect a joke and have that delivered on. Not every thread though.

@win95 thanks for the gold!

This is the way

Yeah those are just circle-jerky and don't add to any meaningful discussion.

this tbh 😩 edit: holy hell

For real though , idk if I see it happening. If the culture of "this" comments comes with, all we have against it is an opposing culture of trying to keep comments high-quality. It just depends on what kind of redditors take the effort to migrate

When does the narwhal bacon XD XD XD

I would support a general community punishment for excessive punnery.

Just wait until someone posts something containing the substring "69"!

If the Lemmies end up like 2023 reddit, then maybe what you're looking for is tildes.net which seems to be more like r/AskHistorians meets pre-September Usenet.

Google en passant

I rather enjoyed those things, keep it going