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To be honest I donβt see a difference to Reddit other than it having much less users and content and more geeky at the moment.
I think another big difference is Lemmy still feels like it is inviting at least a small amount of conversation. Whereas Reddit increasingly feels to me like it collectively prefers to upvote only one correct answer, and stamp down everything else.
I think with federation in general we have more of a chance to preserve what we value in each instance. Whether that is constructive conversation, or cited responses, or memes only/ no memes...
I look forward to being a part of multiple, quite different feeling networks of communities.
It's great to see discussions on Lemmy where both opposing viewpoints are upvoted. You definitely don't see that on reddit. Seems to be getting less common on Lemmy too though, unfortunately.
Assuming it is an issue with two valid but opposing viewpoints. If we're looking at, like, a TIL post about how they calculated the Earth's circumference in classical Egypt, I don't care at all about the flat earther perspective.