A little maybe, but not much.
I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.
It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.
I don’t use Lemmy much anymore nowadays because of this. While it’s important an alternative to Reddit exists, so I try to support it, it ironically feels more like a hivemind than Reddit does (ironic because you’d expect the opposite for federated services). I think it’s because switching to Lemmy from Reddit requires either idealism or a Reddit ban, both of which disproportionately attract people who feel good when they verbally attack internet strangers for disagreeing with them on 1% of the implicitly agreed upon joint viewpoints. It also strangely reminds me of the feeling I got being part of an old gaming community that was slowly dying out, where eventually only the unpleasant ones who defined their identity based on it were left.
I’m always happy to see there are also people here who dislike this attitude, though, or even to see neutral posts. There is still hope!
I switched from Reddit because they banned the app I was using and I didn’t agree with the whole API thing.
I guess that’s kinda idealism
Ah the ever elusive hive mind always gets brought up when people disagree with you. And it always changes funny how the hive mind can have contrasting opinions depending on who is divining it.
the hive mind on lemmy is pretty easy to see. a lot of communities here straight up are based on hive mind thining and loudly declare themselves as such.
I never thought ‘reddit’ as a whole had a hivemind, but on various subreddits there was obvious clear consensus on various topics in the community, some of which were objectively stupid and wrong or a form of collective bullying.
at least on lemmy people are blowing up my PMs with insults, on lemmy they have the decency to do that publicly in a thread.