No...not really. It's just as polarized here as the rest of the internet.

I've encountered more trolls, assholes, and general dickheads here on lemmy than I ever have anywhere else on the Internet, and I've been around for a long time now so that's really saying something.

Idk what's more frustrating: the idiots and assholes themselves or the fact I see threads like this every day talking about how awesome lemmy and everyone around here is (are?).

Screw you pal! 🤣

The internet overall is a much more mature place, and basic literacy of using online spaces has grown immensely. I don’t think there is a good way to build new platforms that avoid including everyone these days. No more intrinsic filters due to necessary domain knowledge or access to the internet.

Asynchronous spaces will always be like this moving forward. It seems.

In my opinion, synchronous spaces will continue to grow in popularity due to many factors.

Lemmy can still be useful, federated online spaces are still worth sorting out and building.

Nope, Reddit was very different back then. Lemmy feels no different than Reddit does now.

The comment section was so good in the early days. No memes at all. Just real conversation about the topic.

Not. At. All.