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I originally thought was that Lemmy would be worse because it's more niche. But I post FOSS stuff on here and Reddit and in general the responses here are more positive. Though there was a decent bit of hate towards Mozilla and GIMP when I posted news about them (new Mozilla logo, GIMP 3 string freeze).
There's much more hate towards many social groups here.
I recently visited reddit after not being on since the exodus, reddit has gotten so much worse, you are really just wrong about this
I visited it a few times recently and there was less toxicity than on Lemmy. I didn't check technological and political subreddits though.
I saw nothing but toxicity, I feel like all the decent people left after the exodus, although it was politics that I saw primarily
Well yea politics may be more toxic on Reddit but overall I'd say Lemmy is worse in terms of that.