Lemmy vs Reddit in a nutshell

AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu to Reddit@lemmy.world – 424 points –

Lemmy: "that is a fair point"

Reddit: "you fucking moron"

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I am absolutely trying my best to be friendly, tolerant and open minded here on Lemmy to set the tone for a growing culture here

I don't 100% agree with this posts point. If you said the Reddit comment in many of the subs you'd have the comment deleted for personal attacks. However, I do agree partially with the Lemmy one.

I'm finding myself more willing to engage with differing views while robustly defending my own views and I'll pepper my arguments with some swearing when appropriate.

It's a closer representation of my actual self. I'm a sweary, Northern Englishman irl but I'm fair and give peope a chance and will listen. So that's how I behave here now.

On Reddit I talked more like a polite AI bot with no opinion on anything lest I receive a suspension or get my comment deleted by an overzealous AutoModerator bot for "personal attack".

I wish that type of in-person language use was more acceptable throughout the US... I'm from Jersey and while I can speak freely in that region and be received normally, everyone here in the Midwest is afraid of me and thinks I'm angry when I speak freely...

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