I think it doesn’t really matter as regarding moderation, it’s already identical to it.
Reddit has a bot culture. So, yes.
Reddit was an absolute behemoth and changed a lot over time.
Culture can stay the same, for all I care. The important thing is keeping the bots out.
There are a million little slices of each site/service, where the culture in that particular community or thread or specific comment chain can differ from somewhere else.
So I would say that no, we shouldn't make the fediverse a monoculture. And with that diversity within the fediverse, we can say that some parts will be similar to some parts of reddit, and some parts won't. And some parts won't be similar to some other parts of the same instance.
Well said, and I completely agree.
I like that Lemmy is queers and Linux and star trek
I am not queer but let's market it as a platform for LGBT and all the wrong people will stay away
I'm neuroqueer
Is that the sequel to Gibson's Neuromancer?
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]".
yeah, there is less 'dad joke' or 'pop culture reference' humor here.
but people didn't send you death threats over Linux on reddit, like they do here.
The people will create the culture naturally and naturally it will evolve over time and time again.
Lemmy is going to have the culture it has.
Forced culture is what shaped all the failed platforms like Reddit, I don't think I would like that.
Yeah, I agree, let’s force a non forced culture, with beans and hookers!
Reddit is shit now. At one time it was ok, but now it is crap.
Which reddit are you referring to?
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.
I hate this kind of talk. For me the point of the fediverse isn't that it's cool because it's niche, but that it's cool because it's a solution to a systemic problem with Social Media. I want Lemmy to get big and messy and full of obnoxious people. I think that's a GOOD thing. Because then they'll be on the fediverse, and not on a platform owned by a single billionaire
The fediverse won't survive that kind of growth in its current form.
Federation requires mutual trust. As soon as there are enough users to make it a target, and a sophisticated threat appears, it will be impossible to avoid manipulation.
lemmy.world will defedrate from everyone.
I don't think this is "bad", just a predictable future of the fediverse.
The mob already exists here
that's just facebook talking in you to keep the competition small
People suck. They're going to suck here like they suck in reddit.
Lemmy already has several cultures independent of Reddit.
Beans, jeans, no pooping...
Most of us are here because reddit is shit and unusable. Why would we want that here?

Funhole is great.
Funhole fucks.
Thats fair. Maybe. I act repulsive on purpose. You know I poop and ape. it is hard to sell me. I am low value by design. Preparing for the future where we are smashing the robots. The marketurds can scrape these ape nuts. You give me slop I throw that shit right back. Negitivity is the game taking dumps on the technoturds is my game. Fuck duh gipity. The gipity everywhere.
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.
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.
Lemmy users are exactly like Redditors, just way more obnoxious.
I actually find it hard to read comments on here, as a new user
I actually find it hard to read comments on here, as a new user
Have you tried running them through a Regex?
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.
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?
Lemmy will have whatever culture it has.
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.
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.
almost like its just a reflection of a general sample of humanity than any given platform.
weird how that happens... turns out; humans just suck
Humans do not suck. Some of us do because our societal systems are gamed to that endeavor. Other social systems are not and produce better humans, and some humans evolve to be better because of and despite those systems.
Whatever funhole is doing.
I'm sure every user here has their own culture.
Seriously, you should clean out your fridge once in awhile.
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