In my short time on Kbin vs. Lemmy, the communities seem quite different already. Kbin reminds me of Reddit today: lots of one line answers and sarcasm, some rude comments too. Lemmy (and Beehaw) so far seem more genuine with more thorough discussions and feels like Reddit did 10 years ago.

Thanks for indulging my curiosity. Seems like an interesting mix. I’m sure adoption rates will be slower for non-techy interests, but Reddit had a slow adoption for those types of things too.

You mean all the folks with a “liberal” tag spouting blatantly conservative, bigoted dogma?

Curious what you mod, if you don’t mind telling.

Genuine interaction is hard to fake but there is definitely no shortage of bot comments or astroturfing in the comments

This has been bugging me too, especially on mobile. Going back after reading a thread and it takes you to a completely different place.

I think a Reddit type platform lends itself better to federation than something like Twitter. Reddit is already split up into sub communities so it’s easier to digest vs. Mastadon/Twitter meant to be one big conversation.

Your question about non-technical savoy folks being on here is valid and there’s probably not many. But Reddit also started out like that and it took many years before it became mainstream. Federated serves are a new thing, even for the technological literate, so I suspect it will take a while to permeate into casual internet users but it will happen in the future.