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I think part of it is early adopters of any new, not-yet-mainstream technology are more open to differences, after all, we’re all doing something different.
Also, when you’re an early part of something, you want it to be the best that it can be, whereas when you are part of this massive corporate social network you don’t feel that same responsibility.
My early Reddit experience was scary that way. I'd quickly learn the hard way (e.g. with antics and misunderstanding) that the name of a subreddit was either an early intention or an inside joke (that I didn't fully get).
Far right subs banhammered me for failing to speak the newspeak and signaling appropriate allegiances. Far left subs banhammered me for... saying something tankie-adjacient, I guess? I'm still not sure what atlantism is.
Spend too long in either echo chamber and I start to realize I'm not part of either. The world is complex, boiling it down to two corporate sponsored and totally insane ideologies doesn't fit.
It's so much easier to comment on Lemmy because it isn't a toxic cesspool waiting to tear you apart
Yet...
But I hope it stays that way ... so behave! ರ_ರ
not yet...
I typically lurk due to this. Maybe this community will allow me to come out a little more and be comfortable doing it
OP ur a big stinky poo-poo
Yet...
And it depends on the instance you're on. I am on beehaw especially because of this, respect.
I've generally only had good interactions on reddit. The trolls aren't very hard at sussing out when you've seen enough of them. You can either interact with them knowing that you're not talking to them, but the people reading, or you simply block them if they start spamming your replies. A quick report and they get banned relatively quickly anyway lol.
Like others have said above, don't worry. That'll be coming here too. Once the tipping point is reached the comments will be just like reddit.
Give it time, man.