It feels more tech-geeky leftist and less AITA fantasy text/AI generated nonsense spam driven

But still pretty similar otherwise

Lemmy is closer to what Reddit was 15 years ago, before the masses piled in and made Reddit literally average.

Most of us are Reddit refugees, so we're bringing all that baggage with us, whether we want to or not.

The main draw of Lemmy for me is the feeling that I'm less exposed to the corporate BS.

Solely from the parts of the lemmyverse I frequent, yes definitely. People would think you're quite silly if you talked like a redditor, even if they were too polite to openly mock you for it.

like madlad, woosh, etc

I haven't used Reddit for years, and I have no idea about those terms. If they're a Reddit thing, I don't recognise them.

Lemmy is also less tolerant of debate bros.

So yeah, they're different

I feel that it's almost more personal here on Lemmy in the sense that things feel genuine. As opposed to Reddit where bullshit abounds.

As a reddit refugee, we have a couple more or less similar mannerisms but the system is massively different. It is intrinsically anticapitalist, not easy to censor, resistant to eee attacks, etc. It is a revolutionary platform which the antithesis of modern reddit. Reddit has started out as true and good but it has been recuperated by capitalism. Lemmy (and all alternatives, as long as decentralized) is the natural successor of reddit.

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there's so many similarities that they're going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There's still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

I can't speak to the minutia but when I use Lemmy it just feels like a less popular Reddit to me. For me, that's not a bad thing, just the vibe I get.

Well reddit is mostly bots and astroturfing. Lemmy seems to have more common sense.

Every subreddit has its own vibe. Some have fully transitioned here like linux and some of the meme sharing communities. Many have not. I cannot really think of communities on Lemmy that do not exist on Reddit.

Beans. The Lemmy version has much more beans.

They're different but they are similar. They rhyme.

It's like Reddit if everyone talked about Linux

You're a lot less likely to get downvoted for something that offends someone, even if it's just a knowledge point.

it's exactly the same. maybe some of the "reddiquette" cultural problems are worse

Lemmy community is even worse because it's less diverse.

The Reddit bot problem isn't as prevalent in smaller, non-political subreddit.

Lemmy barely has any communities that aren't political or tech related.

And most importantly, the NSFW communities are significantly under par.

I’ve been here for awhile and I’m still trying to learn lemmy specific lingo thrown out like tankie and some others

Lemmy is a bit more open thanks for the modlog.

We literally don't know how much is being censored on reddit because mods can remove anything they want without leaving evidence.

The obsession with Technology Connections seems to be unique to Lemmy. I think it's memeified at this point!

Lemmy is an extension of Reddit culture. The vast majority of the users here are either former or current Reddit users, and there hasn't been enough time or enough activity for this place to develop it's own culture yet. It might in the future but we're not there yet

We have a couple of instances with the same admin/mod powertripping culture and thinking every comment is a formal argument

i dunno i just shitpost

I feel like it's pretty similar but the low population makes it easier to spot repeat posters. Also I feel like the quality of answers tend to better (lengthier, more thought out, e.t.c)

References and phrases don't make a culture. The words may change, but the culture here is absolutely the same as Reddit. Which is why it's so damned cringe when you see someone on Lemmy offer a smug, self-satisfied criticism of some supposed inferiority in the Reddit userbase. That kind of smugness is peak Reddit-culture.