I’m always surprised by the quality of comments on Lemmy and the analysis provided, often by experts in their field. It gives a sense that the average Lemmy user is a lot smarter than the average member of the public.
Also, when it comes to politics, I think the average Lemmy user is pretty perceptive of what real power dynamics are at play and what interests society should be looking to promote.
It’s been a pleasure to be on this platform with you all. Where do you all come from? And why is it so hard to find people like you in the real world?
Brother, I’m dumb as hell.
The trick is being just smart enough to stay silent on topics we know nothing about.
I don’t know if we are smarter, but I’d most of are here because we don’t want to put up with some companies antics. So we seem to be a group that left on a matter of principles, I can get on board with that.
That’s a small number of people.
There’s also the people who were IP banned from other social media sites like reddit. They’re not choosing to be here, this is just all they have.
I’m also pretty sure OP just changed some old reddit copy paste thing to Lemmy, and people are legitimately believing it
Meh I’m here not just because I got banned from Reddit but for why I got banned from Reddit.
I told some troglodyte to crawl back into his hole and got permabanned for “threats of violence”.
My foot was already out the door due to a lot of the censorship rules as it was so this was just the final nail in the coffin.
I don’t think people here are smarter. Maybe communication is just more pleasant when removed from all the noise, and when posting is not incentivised by the wrong things.
Your spelling and grammar is perfect. This place isn’t even close to representing the average internet user.
It’s harder to join Lemmy than to join something like Reddit; you have to understand the concept of fediverse, choose instance, etc. It requires some thinking and willingness to learn something new.
This is a self serving thread if I’ve ever seen one!
Lemmy users, myself included, are not smarter than the rest of the population, but we are a small community, a small community that probably joined for similar reasons, meaning we probably have better cohesion than other similar communities.
