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Lemmy has an abnormally tech literate and FOSS "aware" (there's got to be a better term but I'm blanking) user base. The community is small enough that recognizing people isn't unheard of so we tend to be more polite overall - with a smaller community there's less of a sense of anonymity and more social accountability. Oh, we tend to be rather left leaning but, to be honest, "The universe has a well known liberal bias".
Other than those factors we're a mix of folks.
Lawl. Speak for yourself: I'm a luddite - I just asked someone 'what is a foss'
Is this is what happened to my parents when the internet came along and computers started being a thing? I swore to God that would never happen to me
I'm curious, how did you find out about and start using Lemmy? Most folks on Reddit when the API fiasco was happening acted like you needed to be a tech god to even sign up, so I'm curious if you felt intimidated at all?
I was following what was happening on Reddit and someone mentioned it. It was a little tricky to sign up and understand how it all worked once I did, but I got there, obviously (to the chagrin of the shitpost communities)