It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.
It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.
I can’t speak for everyone. I’ve been lurking for the past couple weeks and just signed up yesterday. The prevailing attitude I’ve noticed is that people realize just how much of a toxic hog lagoon reddit has become, and are glad to participate in a community that isn’t. It’s nice to be somewhere that isn’t full of bots and doesn’t coddle nazis.
I also think it helps that most of the onboarding literature is frontloaded with “this is how federation works” instead of jumping right in to “here’s how you sign up and use lemmy.” Effectively scares off the reading-averse.
If considering that to be a plus makes me an elitist, I’m ok with that.
Depends on instance…
My last one wouldn’t defederate from a shitshow instance full of transphobia, threats of violence, and basically anything else you’d see on 4chan.
Apparently all that was just a “difference of opinions” so my old instance said it was fine.
The problematic instance also had a lot of posts shitting on this one for defederating them, so I just signed up a new account here.
I think that’s the best part of Lemmy, it’s easy to just drop an instance and find another that aligns more with what you want out of it.
A decade from now if the biggest instance pulls a spez, everyone would just move to a new instance