I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I’ll be switching back.
Edit: you’ll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.
Ehhh, it kinda depends on where you are on lemmy. The more you’re haunting the politically charged communities and instances, the worse it gets.
Outside of those, it varies more. There’s usually a fairly echoey vibe to Linux forward thinking, and you’ll run into some with fediverse focused discussions/communities regarding social media.
But, if you’re hanging around in either niche subject communities, or in the general communities on instances where politics are not a focus, it’s way better because you don’t have the peanut gallery of randos as often. But even in some of the bigger instances, you can have great discussions with friendly folks easier than on bigger subs.
That’s lemmy though, it’s smaller, and composed largely of people that think in a general way because lemmy is by nature an “off brand” thing. There’s a huge chunk of the user base that left reddit because they got sick of something about reddit. It skews the vibe a good bit. Whether or not any given person likes that is a different issue.
I’ve had trouble getting more niche communities content to appear in my ‘feed’ . example I never see NFL posts unless I navigate to that community. This could be user error but it’s something I’ve had trouble with.
You aren’t alone. A lot of the sports related communities aren’t heavily upvoted so they won’t usually pop up on the Home/All feeds unless you sort by Rising and happen to browse at the right time. I feel like Lemmy could do well with the ability to create lists like Mastodon so that you could browse certain custom feeds.