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I'm kinda agreeing with this, but not as much for the reasons others are stating here.

Lemmy reminds me of reddit moreso in the fact that there is a lot of conversation here that just... isn't really conversation. People read a headline, immediately form conclusions, and slam one-line comments down that state the bare-bones of that without any thought, without even checking if someone else has said the exact same thing.

And I don't think most of that's bots, either. I think it's the structure of the software. Lemmy seems to be trying to be "reddit, but federated" with absolutely nothing more changed, and I think that's a massive mistake. I've seen what thread-based social media can be like if an attempt is made to actually improve on reddit, and there's several methods of doing so that work. Methods that encourage healthy interaction and behavior instead of whatever drives numbers the most. Beehaw even already implements many of them in the form of its core principles and moderation strategy!

But that still leaves the software. And the software doesn't seem to give a damn about the problems inherent to downvoting, upvoting, having visible votes on posts at all, having the easiest thing to interact with be the comment box, etc. Lemmy copies an engagement-oriented site without stripping the toxicity of that. And it shows.

I'm not planning to leave or anything right now – I came here for Beehaw and I still like Beehaw, and I don't browse outside of it – but man if I don't have my frustrations.