The views expressed are more to the left and much more anti big-tech, which makes sense. Discussions are a bit more civil on average and there seems to be much less blatant karma-farming. At least that’s the case on my instance, which blocks some of the more… controversial ones. Speaking of which though, the differences between various instances do shape discussions on Lemmy quite a bit, which Reddit of course doesn’t have. You can often have a pretty good guess on a user’s attitudes, political views and demeanor just by looking at their instance.
Not like you can even farm “karma” here in the first place. Lemmy doesn’t have karma I’m pretty sure.
Don’t worry. Someone corrected me in the same fashion. I just don’t look or care and everything is fine.
You might need to be more specific, since there is a new wave of former redditors joining.
As a former redditor, who joined ~2 years ago, it was very friendly and wholesome when I joined, but has been getting more toxic in recent times.
I never really commented on Reddit.
Here on Lemmy though, I feel like I should.
Also, it feels like that on Reddit, people were commenting and posting mostly to get karma, on Lemmy it’s more like people comment to actually say something or to express their opinions.
I feel like the lack of karma adds in to the civility, but I can’t say that for certain. On Reddit, seeing someone’s karma count seems to sway people’s opinions before even reading what that person says. But here, those votes don’t carry over. In other words, each comment offers a “clean slate.”
There are a few usernames I see and interact with here often. Sometimes I agree with a comment, sometimes I disagree with a comment, but without a total karma count tied to every user, each comment is free to stand on its own regardless of who said it. One bad take doesn’t spoil a person’s reputation. Vice versa, having one fantastic take doesn’t automatically elevate a user who might post something toxic in the future.
seeing someone’s karma count seems to sway people’s opinions before even reading what that person says
Wait, people actually look that up on individual profiles? I only check that when someone has an extremely shit troll-level comment or is ‘karma whoring’ particularly egregiously.
feel like the lack of karma adds in to the civility,
I largely agree, but my stance is that it removes the point of ‘karma whoring’, since that really only exists on Reddit to later sell the account or inflate someone’s ego
Also, it feels like that on Reddit, people were commenting and posting mostly to get karma
Late reply, but that’s an excellent point. A chronic part of the hassle of reading comments on Reddit is having to skim legions of dude-bro jokes to get to the actual relevant replies.
People are usually a lot less toxic here, conversations are more civil.
Less repetitive, less “inside” jokes that get spammed, people reply. I got used to arguing so much that I get defensive here, everyone wants to argue over everything on reddit, while here ppl are more likely to show interest.
Reddit is fake liberal idk what it is, mfs say its so liberal but id be forced to see conservative posts with no way to block them
