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I am a cool guy, I don't need to try.
You can just lurk, for news updates.
You don't have to complain about being specifically here while you do that.
I made an observation, maybe I enjoy that people are like that? If you’d like to take it as a personal complaint about yourself then I have no control over that.
Your 'observation' is uh, lets say, indicative of an underlying factual basis that I find to be broadly false.
Sure lemmy has shitty people too, but 1) a good deal less of them, proportionally and 2) the way lemmy works allows you curate your own experience by blocking them and making use of thenother federative capacities of lemmy.
So I find your description of 'identical' to be somewhere between outright false and misleading.
Yet here you present it as merely an observation, and then also imply that I am taking this personally, and then you also seem to be confident that you broadly know how other lemmings will act, and describe that in a dergatory manner.
Obviously you have some kind of identity concept you are operating with where you set yourself as distinct from, not a member of lemmy, not a lemming, ... some other identity is primary to you.
But you are a lemming, if you are here, writing a comment, on lemmy.
I think that invoking that kind of an identiarian difference, regardless of the specific nature of it, is misguided and immature. You are seeking conflict, when this is not required.
You could just lurk and say nothing. You instead choose to claim to know how a very diverse group will act, and do so rudely.
I am confused as to why you are like this.
If you want everyone to say the same thing then there won’t be any reason for you to post such eloquent comments.
You find it to be broadly false, we can disagree. It reads like you have an emotional stake tied to Lemmies being objectively different, but I cannot know your thoughts obviously.
The two groups being different is simply not the reality I’ve experienced. I’m not on lemmy because the population is better, why would that be the only reason to be here and not on reddit? Also I can be a lemmy and share statements about them. We all have our own personal identities as well, do we not?
Lems act like Redditors who act like humans who like to circle jerk about feigned superiority to the other.
I push back on the consensus because it invokes conversations and thoughts.
Ah ok, you're a self-aware contrarian shit disturber, got it, thanks for answering my question!
Don't worry, so am I, depending on my mood. =D
Anyway, you've been on lemmy for a month, I've been here almost 2 years. My anecdotal experience is considerably more substantial than yours.
One reason to be here, and not on Reddit, is a person's principles. I had been on reddit since all the way back when Digg was more popular tha Reddit.
They've since entirely sold out, morally, literally, they're obviously enshittifying, squeezing the last bit of juice out of a business with an expiration date, by way of a deluge of ads, heavy censorship, outright endorsement and making a business practice of catering to bot nets, etc.
Obviously people do not all have the same opinions or principles, and it is at least my view that lemmy facilitates such things in a far more sustainable and transparent manner than Reddit.
But that is because of lemmy's systemic design principles, not simply because it is a particular or different set of people.
I will vehemently call out bullshit moderation when I see it. And because of the lemmy instances work... users can favor visiting or migrate away from or toward certain moderations rules they find more or less reasonable.
They can criticize moderators, without simply being totally banned or shadow banned by them, across all of lemmy, because lemmy does not have monolithic governance.
Lemmy has a ton of diversity, that you're not going to see if you only sort by Top and end up on lemmy.world most of the time.
In summary, I disagree with your actual opinion here based on both my own more susbtantial anecdotal experience, and my seemingly more comprehensive understanding of the systemic, mechanical, functional differences between reddit and lemmy.
I do thank you though for actually engaging with me in good faith.
Have an interesting day!