Because it's run by the people for the people! :)
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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I think it has people with above average reading comprehension because amount of people I saw that said opening a Lemmy account is too hard and they couldn't manage to do it is way too high
Early adopters of any innovation likely have certain personality traits that make them able and willing to assess a new technology and learn/overcome some obstacles to use it. Maybe those traits translate into pleasant, respectful online communication?
ETA: I need to see if I still have my old grad school copy of Diffusion of Innovation. It might have some answer in there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
ETA1: Most everyone seems thoughtful and patient. So maybe those are early adopter traits?
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The fediverse is a great system for moderation. I've been on Mastodon for years now and it's stayed pretty pleasant.
Fediverse denizens are really active.
A lot of us have been nofapping reddit for a while so it's it a bit of a release to interact in this familiar way.
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I think there's many contributing factors. I actually was thinking about the same thing before I found your post, and the answer that came to mind outside of some of the ones people posted here was:
It feels like a breath of fresh air because we're outside the Walled Garden. We're not trapped on a platform who's soul has been crushed and wrung for every penny's worth like Reddit or Twitter. And we can see that there is a world on the Internet besides the Walled Garden and that fact is very liberating. It makes you feel like you don't have to go back.
Not to pat ourselves on the back too much but right now itβs mainly the Reddit power users that are here. The normies are wondering why interesting as fuck was flooded with porn as of last night.
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On reddit, half of the users are bots controlled by various corporations and state departments.
The people aren't assholes. The place is not that big to be totally ruined.
I think it all boils down to an older and more geeky user base.
Let's enjoy it while it lasts. This feels comfortable like the internet until the late 1990s. I didn't realize I missed that. And when it starts to be exploited for profit, trolled for whatever reason people troll things, and swamped by bots, let's sneak off somewhere else they don't know about and do it again.
I've had more traction on my posts and comments in the month or so I've been on lemmy than the entire 14 years I was on reddit. I'm glad I've moved, couldn't give two shits how it does from here out, I'm away.
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I noticed the same, probably because reddit has become really bad in the last years but I didn't realize it until I joined here a couple of weeks ago.
It's indeed refreshing being able to have honest discussions on a platform that's not infested by bots, propaganda, disguised ads, mass shitposting, hidden agendas, etc.
If lemmy becomes wildly popular to the masses, it's possible things will change for the worse, who knows, but I'll enjoy it a lot in the meantime.
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There are less reposts bc its newer and bc there is a lot less bots