What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

(Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

  • knight_alva@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.

    The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.

    On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      The community seems closer to my age.

      I feel like the community is split between 25~40s and pre-teens, lol

      Though to be fair, it feels like a 70:30 split.

      There are a lot of Reddit refugees here. Many came over because Reddit sucks. Others came during the API debacle. Some seem to have come here because they were banned from Reddit due to not really knowing how to follow the social rules of the internet.

      The AskLemmy Community, for example, will have posts like this next to each other (if you sort by New):

      What’s the biggest issue you’ve seen when someone tried to shift to Linux?

      Why do older people say im mature for my age but my friends still say things like hey buddy/pal??