Lemmy is going to have the culture it has.

Forced culture is what shaped all the failed platforms like Reddit, I don't think I would like that.

What people hate about reddit is what people hate about mobs. If Lemmy ever gets as big as reddit, it will suck just as much.

Lemmy already has several cultures independent of Reddit.

Thankfully there's different instances

Having migrated a couple times, I've found that instances have their own culture and I don't see anything wrong with that.

I think the fediverse is a series of individuals who will create microcultures. we will not all be interacting with everyone and will be what we will be.

The people will create the culture naturally and naturally it will evolve over time and time again.

I like that Lemmy is queers and Linux and star trek

Culture can stay the same, for all I care. The important thing is keeping the bots out.

I don't really like the parroting of in-jokes thing. Probably any sufficiently long lived large group will probably have in-jokes, but reddit-isms always grated the most.

Just let people be themselves. I think that the open source nature of the threadiverse will keep the culture pretty level headed. No algorithms trying to promote rage for clicks. It's gonna be fine.

There are a million little slices of each site/service, where the culture in that particular community or thread or specific comment chain can differ from somewhere else.

So I would say that no, we shouldn't make the fediverse a monoculture. And with that diversity within the fediverse, we can say that some parts will be similar to some parts of reddit, and some parts won't. And some parts won't be similar to some other parts of the same instance.

Most of us are here because reddit is shit and unusable. Why would we want that here?

Culture = your Cult

The decentralized design of the Fediverse intentionally allows differing cultures to interact, while preventing any single one from dominating the means of communication. The attempt to define cultural rules is a fools errand without centralized control.

The Fediverse has no centralized control, and thus will never be subject to a single set of cultural rules - nor should it be.

I don't want a copy of Reddit's culture on Lemmy, but I think Lemmy's culture will be similar because of the interaction format and because a sizable number of Lemmings I presume use Reddit and Lemmy both regularly. So it will be up to how close the viewer looks to determine if they seem the same or distinct.

I think one thing I don't see much on Lemmy are the very tired 3+ nested comment chains that don't add conversational value, like "and my axe!". I've only seen it very occasionally, and usually in good joking taste, for example the trope "[term OP used] means this, you probably were thinking of [also incorrect word]".

It'll develop. Whether it should or not eventually Lemmy will develop its own distinct online culture which carries across instances, topics and communities.

I know people will think it won't have its own particular culture because it's decentralized etc etc but I remember people saying the same thing about Reddit in like 2011. The smaller community identities either got absorbed into the larger idea of what a "redditor" is or the subs just died.

It's a little early to say, but Lemmy culture so far has a lot of carryover of Reddit. Which makes sense considering most people here probably used Reddit first. In my experience Lemmy yo-yos between reddit but grumpier and reddit but more conversational. It reminds me a lot of early reddit in that people put more effort into their comments than other places, but also has an air of confident pseudo-intellectualism. There's no real hivemind yet but there are generally popularized norms.

It does and should.

I'm sure every user here has their own culture.

Seriously, you should clean out your fridge once in awhile.

Yes, but here we are, anyway. Largest instance is R*ddit 2.0.

Reddit has a bot culture. So, yes.

I think it doesn’t really matter as regarding moderation, it’s already identical to it.

Reddit is shit now. At one time it was ok, but now it is crap.

Which reddit are you referring to?

Lemmy will have whatever culture it has.

Reddit was an absolute behemoth and changed a lot over time.

Whatever funhole is doing.

I would like it to, but I don't think it's gonna.

I don't know what reddit's culture is like, since I left years ago.

I want many cultures to digest the nonsesnse of this modern life. Reddit is a bot pig pin owned by the corpos. It is a filthy useless place. Some times I use redlib to see what the piggies are up to. You know intel. I have not used reddit for like a decade. I am too spicy. On lemmy you can get around banned from community and challenge the ignoramuses via smashing hug boxes.

Lemmy users are exactly like Redditors, just way more obnoxious.

I actually find it hard to read comments on here, as a new user