Welcome! People are kinder here, overall. You'll find yourself less defensive, more willing to engage, less snarky, easier to be around irl - man, Reddit was (is?) toxic AF, and whether or not I came here I was definitely leaving there.

Remember to block early and often here - back there that was almost pointless bc a never-ending stream of Reddi-trolls was ready to take their place, but here that actually works!:-)

Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for many more tips. You are going to like it here:-).

Also, since you mentioned PixelFed, check out PieFed as well as a Lemmy alternative - it has e.g. "categories" of communities rather than making you find and subscribe to each one individually, so it's a whole different style compared to Lemmy where you have to browse by All to find new content. I'm speaking to you from it right now.:-)

But either way, I find that (most of) the people here are more worth talking to than Reddit:-).

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Kinder???? How DARE you. I'll have you know I only kissed 2 puppies instead of 3 this morning

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I kissed four so the universe is now back in balance and there's nothing you can do about it.

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People are kinder here, overall.

That may be because there aren't troll bots, stoking the fires, to drum up 'discussion' which makes it look good to advertisers that it is an active pool of users.

Did no one see the all the bots around 2015/2016 learning on Reddit?

They would say all sorts of non-sensical stuff as they learned, until there would be a hit or two that would get responses out of people, and it would re-enforce the bot to say more things like that.

Guess what kind of stuff/topics gets a plethora of responses?

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that, but also the humans there too were a bit much. The entire culture is like "entertain me, while I shit on your efforts to do so". People (don't) wait to speak rather than actually listen.

Here we are allowed to have an older crowd of people - who use Linux btw - and do more to step up to be the change that they want to see in the world rather than merely vent like children.

I definitely would have left Reddit regardless of whether Lemmy existed to come to or not, so I get why so many content creators left Reddit - it just became not fun anymore. (And yeah, the chasing after profits is what originally made it that way, but also the sheeple consented too.)