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Not quite as many leading experts in their field.
The braintrust is starting to build, we can now have a whatisthisthing community, but you still don't get to say "exoornithological engineers of Lemmy, in your opinion..."
If you're used to the weird wackos being the gay hating bible thumping gun fucking Republicans, they're basically not present here. They're replaced with the "Mao did nothing wrong" crowd.
There is less bandwagon posting here. "this" chains and so forth.
Cross-posting or doing !example@whatever.lol doesn't happen as often as it did on Reddit.
Oh here's a big cultural difference: Lemmy mods tend not to be as anal about their community formats as Reddit mods are. I got a 14 day ban from r/whatisthisthing for telling an anecdote related to the thing in question, because it wasn't STRICTLY about identifying what the thing was. "Which community is this, what are the norms, what is the expected format etc" is not as much of a concern here. Lemmy communities aren't art projects.
No one here is important or official. There are no video game community managers or anything like that here. Lemmy is not used for interacting with anyone other than fellow idle nerds.
This is how Reddit was before it exploded in popularity and companies and celebrities started taking it seriously. I don't know if Lemmy will ever get to that point, especially seeing how much abuse people will endure before they change platforms.
Other important point: we already have homeservers that federate with shitholes like threads or hybrids like bluesky. Lemmy is just one way of displaying AP protocol content. From that perspective it is basically ungovernable, which is cool if you ask me. ;)
Eh, on Lemmy, users can really easily switch to a home instance that isn't doing that, so it's a little more self-correcting.