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I like that Lemmy is queers and Linux and star trek

I don't want a copy of Reddit's culture on Lemmy, but I think Lemmy's culture will be similar because of the interaction format and because a sizable number of Lemmings I presume use Reddit and Lemmy both regularly. So it will be up to how close the viewer looks to determine if they seem the same or distinct.

I think one thing I don't see much on Lemmy are the very tired 3+ nested comment chains that don't add conversational value, like "and my axe!". I've only seen it very occasionally, and usually in good joking taste, for example the trope "[term OP used] means this, you probably were thinking of [also incorrect word]".

The people will create the culture naturally and naturally it will evolve over time and time again.

Lemmy users are exactly like Redditors, just way more obnoxious.

I actually find it hard to read comments on here, as a new user

Lemmy already has several cultures independent of Reddit.

Most of us are here because reddit is shit and unusable. Why would we want that here?

Lemmy is going to have the culture it has.

It'll develop. Whether it should or not eventually Lemmy will develop its own distinct online culture which carries across instances, topics and communities.

I know people will think it won't have its own particular culture because it's decentralized etc etc but I remember people saying the same thing about Reddit in like 2011. The smaller community identities either got absorbed into the larger idea of what a "redditor" is or the subs just died.

It's a little early to say, but Lemmy culture so far has a lot of carryover of Reddit. Which makes sense considering most people here probably used Reddit first. In my experience Lemmy yo-yos between reddit but grumpier and reddit but more conversational. It reminds me a lot of early reddit in that people put more effort into their comments than other places, but also has an air of confident pseudo-intellectualism. There's no real hivemind yet but there are generally popularized norms.

I think the fediverse is a series of individuals who will create microcultures. we will not all be interacting with everyone and will be what we will be.

Forced culture is what shaped all the failed platforms like Reddit, I don't think I would like that.

People suck. They're going to suck here like they suck in reddit.

What people hate about reddit is what people hate about mobs. If Lemmy ever gets as big as reddit, it will suck just as much.

Whatever funhole is doing.

Lemmy will have whatever culture it has.

Yeah but also social media is just a medium. It's the people who create the culture, not the medium. Sure people adapt to other people but you still start somewhere.

Tumblr was popular with young people, women and minorities, and to this day it's overwhelmingly queer and female. Facebook was popular with young people but was quickly discovered by organisations and businesses as an easy way to be public facing, so over time it's become sort of more professional and inclusive of older people.

What kind of people used reddit? Before it got popular, it's culture was influenced by millennials, nerd culture and hobby forum culture. That's what's stayed. What kind of people use Lemmy? Well, that's the question isn't it?

Thankfully there's different instances

Having migrated a couple times, I've found that instances have their own culture and I don't see anything wrong with that.

I don't really like the parroting of in-jokes thing. Probably any sufficiently long lived large group will probably have in-jokes, but reddit-isms always grated the most.

I hope it's more thoughtful.

I want many cultures to digest the nonsesnse of this modern life. Reddit is a bot pig pin owned by the corpos. It is a filthy useless place. Some times I use redlib to see what the piggies are up to. You know intel. I have not used reddit for like a decade. I am too spicy. On lemmy you can get around banned from community and challenge the ignoramuses via smashing hug boxes.

Culture = your Cult

The decentralized design of the Fediverse intentionally allows differing cultures to interact, while preventing any single one from dominating the means of communication. The attempt to define cultural rules is a fools errand without centralized control.

The Fediverse has no centralized control, and thus will never be subject to a single set of cultural rules - nor should it be.

Just let people be themselves. I think that the open source nature of the threadiverse will keep the culture pretty level headed. No algorithms trying to promote rage for clicks. It's gonna be fine.

Yes, but here we are, anyway. Largest instance is R*ddit 2.0.

I'm sure every user here has their own culture.

Seriously, you should clean out your fridge once in awhile.

It does and should.

I don't know what reddit's culture is like, since I left years ago.