That’s what I’ve been noticing for quite a while. Lemmy slowly became the very thing it tried proposing itself to be better than. But I guess that’s the cost and what happens when you got disgruntled users from Reddit coming here, just to shit up the place just because they either can or that is really how they are everywhere.

Really can’t tell you how many antagonizing users I’ve ran across in all of my attempts to socialize around the fediverse, especially Lemmy. Oh and the power-tripping moderation is alive and well, definitely something from Reddit. It’s almost like Reddit gave them a reason to leave it, just so they’d come here and repeat everything that went wrong.

the point is lemmy is ours, not some psycho billionaire’s.

ffs, Lemmy’s strength is in it’s decentralised non corpo design, not that we users are a better quality of human. It went from Usenet, to the centralised shitiness of Reddit back to a decentralised system in Lemmy/Piefed more akin to Usenet

but, I’d also argue just by being here you’re a better person.

Not true for me.

I made a joke, and someone got upset. I explained that I didn’t mean it seriously and apologized. Then they told me they were in a bad mood and apologized for their reaction.

I’d rather hang with these shitty people over here than those shitty people over there.

The userbase is largely overlapping as most Lemmy users are current or former Reddit users. The difference is largely in the communities and moderation, not users…

I left reddit because they had an IPO, not because of the people.

Excellent unpopular opinion that I disagree with! Good post for here :3

On Reddit, I was CONSTANTLY annoyed in every thread.

Award edits: annoying.

Talking about awards and upvotes: annoying.

Spamming subreddits as hashtags: annoying. Rehashing the same phrase/joke over and over again: annoying.

Fake stories in all top subreddits in /all/ used as creative writing before LLMs made even being CREATIVE obsolete yet the site was clogged with bullshit and hundreds (if not thousands) of people responding as if the stories are real: annoying.

(More recently, as of when I left Reddit when the API change was made) Majority of people bots or astroturfers/shills/etc: annoying.

I constantly was shitting in comments and people on Reddit because so many comments were just… so… horribly… stupid! Asinine! Coming from a history of communities of folks that, while being overtly overwhelmingly dumb/offensive, were at least original or creative (IRC/Usenet/LUE/SA/b/specific forums) in their commenting and posts, near the end of Reddit’s life I felt like I had to dig through more oceans of shit to find a tiny gold nugget than I did when I was heavy into /b/ in the early-to-mid 2000s.

I find that Lemmy threads have an expectantly smaller quantity of idiots, rehashed ‘clever’ one-liners in every thread, ‘creative’ writing that isn’t creative in the slightest, and overall garbage commenters. Better shitposters, more furries, better grammar, and more organic stuff overall.

That’s my opinion, anyway. Your post has a lot of downvotes for a “popular” “unpopular opinion” post here which tells me you’ve posted a good one hahaha. I do agree with some of what you’ve said—I’d like some places I can post and read some more crunchy-ass shit. Not stuff like being racist “as a joke”, but with the way the fediverse is, I’d like some NSFL stuff and places where people can be free to be more crude or whatnot. Lemmy is very “safe”, which is healthy for a lot of folks. Overall though, I’ll take “safe” over “enragingly annoying everywhere” hahaha

I left reddit because of them imposing their cronenbergian UX on me.

Lemmy was never going to be a better community than reddit, because it’s still redditors leaving reddit to come here. People were the problem with reddit, people are the problem with Lemmy.

That was always a given.

Lemmy is about 10000% less facebook normie. I don’t care if it’s the same amount of toxic, that’s already a massive improvement.

Reading all the comments here venting about bad expereince and here I am just having a blast on Lemmy with a the nice interactions! :D

The idea that contrarianism is somehow interaction is similar.

I’ve frequently had people start replies with “I strongly disagree” and then proceed to say the same thing as my comment back at me.

Some people are just fighting a war in their own head.

Well I don’t think we’re on here to appease you so shrug.

I like using Lemmy over Reddit which I don’t have anymore because it is much slower pace and I tend to open the app maybe once a week instead of scrolling Reddit an hour a day. Since Lemmy is less active it is also less bombarded with doom scrolling, hopefully more AI slop prone and less toxic overall because I don’t use the comments section that often anymore.