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.
Lemmy was never going to be a better community than reddit, because it’s still redditors leaving reddit to come here. People were the problem with reddit, people are the problem with Lemmy.
That was always a given.
Stop. It could have been. But it isn’t. Your phrasing it as “it was never going to be” is lazy. It could have definitely been better.
Instead lemmy seems to want to be the parts of reddit where everything is highlight moderated. Every topic is put into a tight box that sucks the oxygen out quickly. Something about beans and moths
I came to lemmy thinking it would be a space for old school pre corporate internet users. A place where people wanted to create something that was primarily leftist who wanted to work towards what we once had. Instead it was the opposite of that.
Lemmy seems like a place where people just want to recreate corporate spaces. People here don’t want to change anything instead they want to solidify the stuff that already doesn’t work. As long as you can sell these communities to advertisers then they’re happy as can be.
Who is trying to sell a community on here?
This is just an observation and my opinion. My point is that this the past 10 years we’ve commercialized digital spaces for selling off to marketers and advertisers that it is now ingrained in how we create new spaces. Regardless if it is consciously or unconsciously. Lemmy is still new, but the behavior and rules and actions were recreated here.
The goal is to box everything. Everything in its box. Tightly controlled and and categorized. This way the space is ready to be sold. It sucks the air out of places. It leaves no room to build momentum or originality. But there’s very safe.