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A few months ago, I would've said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters... But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn't say

TBH it feels like a pretty continuous evolution of Reddit, Digg, and whatever was between Digg and usenet. There's self selection that's made it a bit more harmonious than Reddit, but that's it.

That being said, it's super cool to get a glimpse into the million different experiences people have had. The internet is a magical place.

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Much kinder than Reddit, people here know how to disagree and discuss things in a more constructive way.

Alot of people are really helpful for any questions you might ask, as long as you are respectful

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The high proportion of Linux users is nice

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Being able to comment and post without jumping through arbitrary hoops. No automod bots telling me I need 10 karma to post, no oops sorry not allowed to share external links to other websites, no oh no sharing pictures in the comments below post. Lemmy aligns with the principles of respecting user interaction on a technical level and not choking the life out of you with corporate TOS regulation.

Lemmy is not perfect. I am not really politically or ideologically aligned with a lot of the stuff the community as a whole is into, so being constantly exposed to the same themes and propaganda over and over gets a little grating. However I'm happy to deal and tolerate as long as I feel respected by the platform as a intelligent person using an open free as in freedom discussion fourm and not made to feel like yet another drone fueling a corpo content mill.

I love that no one ever blinks an eye when I run naked through here. You guys are so cool!

If by culture you mean Lemmy's users values, beliefs, or ideals there is nothing special I appreciate (or don't appreciate). I mean, for me it's irrelevant as it's all personal preferences like the fact that I don't like bananas, or that we have not owned a TV for 25 years (glad to know others may share similar preferences, but it's no big deal if they don't).

I care about Lemmy itself not being like Reddit. It's not ad-driven, there is no algorithmic 'optimization',, it's not trying to milk our content and also it's not being owned by one of those billionaires that think their pile of money means they know better than all of us. In that, it's very different than Reddit, but at the same time I also expect to meet similar kind of people on Lemmy I used to meet on Reddit.

Interesting, or less interesting, people. People I agree with, and more often people I do not agree with (which is fine by me). Very smart people, while others do have the brain power of a brick. Nice people, or naughty or even hateful ones. People whose values I share, others I don't and never will (you can go funk yourself, fascists of all types). People who like what I like, and many others that don't and never will (see my banana and TV examples ;).

And then I also expect tp meet people who think it's enough to ask their question without even trying to give it the some context or explanation (say, people who ask what we appreciate most in Lemmy culture without explaining what they mean by that), next to people that try their best to give as much context/explanation as they can ;)

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It's a plus and a negative: how anti-fascist and anti-capitalist it is. I do think that it can go too far at times, but I just block those people. We should try to be less binary as that just isn't what reality is like.

At first I liked that it was nicer and more intelligent but recently that hasn't been true. My current favorite thing is that it is selfhostable and many users do it.

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That it doesn't feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There's genuine discussion, not just a few top meme-comments and a sea of ignored participation.

@TehBamski that everyone can talk to everyone else regardless of software. We are all Fedi.

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I like that i can interact from Mastodon

Apologies for saying this, but if I'm being completely honest about it, it's more of what I hate less about the Lemmy culture, than I do the Reddit culture. The lesser of two evils kind of thing.

On the plus side, it does seem like it has less corporate censorship than Reddit does.

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My favorite is: if you disagree, you can always just go to another instance or even create your own. Other than that, I like how, instead of a total score, posts show likes and dislikes separately. This is more of a technical thing than a cultural one, but it has a big impact on making brigading less effective. In general, all these technical decisions make Lemmy very friendly to a variety of cultures and people from across different spectrums of political and other opinions.

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