Ask Lemmy

If you think creating a Lemmy account is complicated, well that says a lot.

because you're here bringing down the average

obvious troll is obvious

Is it because they disagree with you? I've found way more intelligent conversations and fewer memes on Lemmy compared to reddit.

Ignoring the obvious bait in the title, I think it's mostly a numbers thing. On Reddit you can follow only communities that you vibe with, and the voting system works to keep low quality posts down. I'd be surprised if there wasn't the same proportion of people on Reddit that you find objectionable, but they're stuck in the bowels of downvote hell.

Or maybe you're just surrounded by people with different views or life experiences and don't know how to process it. Idk.

cause we dumb, lol

Just to be clear I'll define two things:

• "knowledge" - info available to the person from memory; or to the group, through their common channels of interaction. The opposite of "ignorance".
• "intelligence" - ability to use said information to produce logically correct and relevant statements.

This is important here because, even if your complain is worded as Lemmy being less intelligent, you're clearly complaining about lack of knowledge - cue to "I always learn new stuff" and references to the complexity of registration (i.e. the knowledge necessary to navigate through it).

With that out of way:

Lemmy's knowledge is mostly impaired by a small userbase. It's great when it comes to a few topics, such as technology or specific lines of political thinking; but once you go past that it's hard to find a lot of stuff here. This is not does not mean that the individual users are ignorant - sometimes you know something but there's simply no room to convey it.

Intelligence-wise, however, I disagree with you. Don't get me wrong, a lot of Lemmy users are braindead trash that would genuinely believe that 50 is 100 because it is not 0, eager to vomit "ackshyually" (a sign of knowledge and stupidity), fallacious as a brick, so goes on; however, they're proportionally less of an issue than the morons that you'd find in Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc.

It's generally a lot less pretentious, which might appear as a lack of "intelligent" comments. Most Lemmy users just don't spend hours trying to write page long comments on obscure topics that nobody else here cares about.

Also, in the more specific communities, lots of things are taken for granted. Places with more users will more often have the "todays 10000" user, who just discovered something that is new to them and then decides to write about it in detail. Lemmy is more polite that way: Not reposting noob stuff on a daily basis for karma or whatever point system brings it up constantly on other sites.

skill issue

Well, your expectation is other users here must be intelligent.

But when looking at your post & comment submissions, it implies you yourself are not in that category you are expecting others to be.

What new stuffs you have learned at other places? What you were expecting here to learn?

Duh.

Which other social media services do you mean?