I’m serious. Specially, the community - you folks, no matter the instance, you rock. You’re amazing.
In Reddit it’s always a struggle to word your posts/comments in a way that it won’t trigger
- unwarranted assumptions popping out of nowhere
- “I dun unrurrstand” meaning “I disagree but I’m pretending that you aren’t following any logic”
- “You’re saying that because…” [insert insane troll logic] everywhere
- “U think dat 50 is not 100? Than u think 50 is 0! Dats stupid lol” tier oversimplifications all the fucking time.
- insert random distortion of what you said, either due to malice or stupidity
Here though? People actually disagree with each other on rational = human grounds. They aren’t attacking each other, they’re agreeing or disagreeing with what is said!
It’s specially noteworthy that even Lemmygrad’s community specifically tailored for Leftist infighting is more wholesome than non-discussion subreddits. Like, it’s a server made for people with strong political opinions, a community made to let them fight, and yet they can reason better than Reddit.
Please keep being awesome.
I think the ‘discovery’ aspect of lemmy might have some issues. Its not particularly easy to get connected into the federation (it basically has to be done manually), as far as I can tell.
I think the fediverse will be better supported by niche interests like lemmygrad.ml, or like wallstreets.bet. Smaller fiefdoms that focus pretty narrowly on niche interests, but that can be interesting to other groups in the fediverse. More ‘tribal’ and less monolithic than reddit. We’ve also already see how problematic that monolithic tendency of web-3.0 can be (centralized control via reddit; crashing of lemmy.ml).
SO I think if you are super into gardening, you should find a gardening lemmy for your home base, and federate out from there. I just wish cross-federation community discover was easier.