Who are the real lemmings? Us or the redditors that stuck around

The real lemmings are the friends you made along the way

The lemmings were inside us all along. Wait
- Something something lemmiwinks

Have other redditors left already?

I just got here yesterday. I have no intention of leaving. I was honestly quite bored with Reddit. Its culture went from one that is similar to how Lemmy is now, to one that is angry and depressed.

it's not just the politics; even just the casual threads went sour in the way people interacted. I already say enough mean things to myself in the mirror. I don't need some yutz on the internet adding in.

Ya I could never post on reddit without someone butting in to disagree
- Well ACKSHULLY....
  
  I think another thing was the pedantry. you'd say something, and one tiny detail would be not 100% accurate, and sure as shit, someone would jump all over you, and try and discredit the entirety of what you just wrote.
- When the Ukraine war first broke out, I asked about a kind gesture I could do for my senior Ukranian neighbour. While most comments had positive suggestions, there were a few that said "can't believe people buy this karma farming shit" ... Like, is having a good relationship with your neighbour who happens to be Ukranian that much of an outlandish scenario!? No wonder they're miserable.
Every uplifting news comment section are people saying why it's actually a bad thing. Or if you haven't seen something before and everyone are complaining about it being repost... They like to dunk on Twitter's toxicity (while a lot of Reddit posts are twitter screenshots) but it's really pot calling the kettle black.
- True.
  
  I mean, Lemmy will ultimately have some of this, if it doesn't exist already. Gaywallet on @Beehaw has a really great post on the finer points of internet discussion.
  
  I don't expect this place to be all sunshine, rainbows, and frolicking kittens; but I would really like to be able to just TALK to someone without them calling me a moron.

Por qué no los dos

lemmings are good creatures tho so i assume us

Just don't take them to the mountains, or near cliff-faces.
- I figure you're just joking and are well aware that this was a myth invented for a Disney nature "documentary", but I feel a duty to defend the noble lemmings against this scurrilous stereotype. They're not suicidal or mindless followers. They do, however, smell terrible.
- But they love cliff-faces so much 😔

That's a dangerous game to play when joining a community largely comprised of people who already left reddit, some of them over a decade ago. 😂

I'm more of a Mastonaut :-$

Same! And I believe I follow you on Mastodon!
hi fellow mastodon user!
It's stux!!!

I like to think we refugees are the lemmings that jumped through Reddit's cliff.

Honestly, I don't think Lemmy with thrive if it's an "us vs them" mentality IMO the "real lemmings" will be anyone participating or contributing to conversations here

Ya you right man