If you’ve used both Lemmy and Reddit: Which one gives you better discussions and more reliable info without all the spam? Share what you have noticed.
If you’ve used both Lemmy and Reddit: Which one gives you better discussions and more reliable info without all the spam? Share what you have noticed.
I have a possibly unpopular take on this….
Whatever you can say, good or bad, about either platform, the one thing that neither of them have control over is the quality of the people who use them. And my observation is that neither platform is more or less attractive to higher quality people.
On both platforms, I see about the same ratio of friendly, affable, helpful people to toxic, angry, terminally online people. And each has its share of communities where terrible people seem to congregate. I come here to joke, shitpost, and sometimes share my perspective and the experiences that have shaped it, and enjoy the company of people here for the same goals. I’ve had as much success (and failure) here as I have anywhere else.
This isn’t an indictment of either platform so much as an indictment of humanity and the condition it’s currently in. That all being said, Reddit’s slow degradation in quality and the reasons for it are well-known and not something Lemmy has a problem with, and hopefully is inoculating itself against.