Randomly made a little post on Reddit that cloned one I made on lemmy, and it really showed the difference in user. I brought a screen protector and mentioned it didn’t have glue and got a comment from each platform regarding the same issue that really made me realise the difference in communities and how tired I’ve become of the whole “well ackually” mentality of Reddit.
Lemmy comment, just asking a question and provides a solution trying to help: “Is it perhaps static cling, or do you have to apply with a water/soap solution?”
Reddit comment just randomly guessing and making out I’m a moron who doesn’t know how screen protectors work despite me saying in the description I’d done so, got 14 upvotes on a 20 upvoted post, so this is basically the vibe of that sub I guess.
"I’m inclined to believe that you didn’t peel the right side. "
This is my rant for the evening, think I’ll go back to not bothering with Reddit any more, maybe I am stupid :D.
I’d argue that the structure of reddit is almost perfect for that kind of nonsense.
You have a huge pool of users from a wide variety of backgrounds, but split into different communities that are simultaneously tightly knit and very open. It’s the perfect storm for the ackshuallys to get in contact with normal people, and thus feel absolutely superior.
Lemmy has the same structure, but simply not that many users.
I remember plenty of pre-Reddit forums also being exactly the same way.
If anything, the big difference was that whoever was in charge tended to end up just banning whoever disagreed with them. So most people either learned not to contradict “what was known”, or got kicked out. (In fairness, Reddit also had that problem, but subjectively not as often.)