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I think my favorite thing about Lemmy is that it feels like Reddit used to. Less negativity, more engaged users (I think). I know it will be fun to watch Reddit die, but if I put spite aside what Iโ€™m really mad at Reddit about is more about what Reddit became and maybe part of that is when the general internet user started going to Reddit and it became less like the small community it was years ago. Feel free to disagree or share an argument ๐Ÿ˜‰

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Many of them are not staying respectful though.

They have a fresh start on a new place, and they just choose to be miserable and brought the reddit over here.

[-] crowsby@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Since a lot of the exodus was prompted by conflict, I wouldn't be surprised to see a higher proportion of folks here who speak conflict as a first language, at least for a while.

I kind of feel like without purposeful and diligent pruning, all online communities sink down to the lowest common denominator. That's hard to manage since a community is as much a vibe as it is conforming to a set of explicit rules. Personally I like the tildes.net code of conduct, since that's basically a similar philosophy.

[-] icxcnika@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That's a really solid take, but I'd say there's 3 practical types of conflict: discussion (disagreement with a lot of thought put into it - a category that I'd like to think my comments frequently fall into), shitposting (disagreement with little/no thought, or sarcasm), and hostility ("nah that's stupid, go !@#$ yourself").

The first 2 categories are the lifeblood of a very large number of thriving online communities. The last category needs to be unilaterally expelled from every corner possible.

[-] BlueDiamond@rammy.site 2 points 1 year ago

Where are you seeing that? I haven't run into it yet besides very few scattered around, which is unavoidable on the internet, people love to fight :p

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