Life's hard enough as it is, one has to practice self love.

The difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that you can post this without getting shadowed banned

But that's Mastodon's mascot!

Tbf, a lemmy user is far less likely to be a bot, so... yes?

Man, y'all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.

What was I talkin' about?

Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge... which I can't claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit's variety of topics to include... I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don't think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.

Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you'll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D

So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!

If I could do that I wouldnt be wasting my time here.

To be honest, I need something more substantial, but I haven't found where to go after we lost forums

The irony is that reddit users would say the same about other people on other platforms.

Auto-Fellatio Elephant on my home feed. What a day!

I do feel like I have more authentic interactions on here. It's hard not to see how much more heavily a huge platform like reddit is botted and astroturfed, and controlled by a handful of owners, mods and powerusers, compared to the nascent fediverse. Not that we don't have those things here too, I think Lemmy just hasn't had a high enough profile, yet, to warrant much attention from the same bad actors who run vast portions of reddit, X, and facebook. Here's hoping it stays that way for a little while longer.

You think if I could do that I'd be here?

Tbf biggest reddit communuties are gaming ones and biggest lemmu communities are programming ones.

Colonial Americans saying they’re smarter than the British.

“Dude, you were British, we all were!”

And Lemmy users in this thread

In my experience, Lemmy users generally seem to be more mature (with significant exceptions), but “mature” certainly isn’t a synonym for “smarter”.

Plus, reddit is SO EASY to make fun of. They might as well reward people with terrible ideas and their most obnoxious users. Spez, for example.

I'm sure there is a Mastodon joke in there somewhere.

First thing this image makes me think of are Linux users

A lot of them are, the ones that aren't bots and propoganda alt accounts, but a lot of them are also only here because they would be / were banned from Reddit.

Piefed master race tho

Actually how big is an elephant cock?

Ah, 3 foot. Hope nobody check my browsing history today.

Idk I'm certain I'm at least smarter than the half of reddit users that are LLMs and thus cannot count the number of Rs in any given fruit.

Two things can be true at once

Literally anybody who is part of any group ever: