I like em dashes. I learned the alt code for en and em dashes just so I could use them easily on a computer. There is a difference between a hypen and an en dash, and a double-hyphen is but a simulacrum of the em dash!

• Hyphen is just for double-barrelled words
• An en dash is useful – at least sometimes – for inserting side thoughts
• ah boy I sure hope an em dash doesn't interrupt m—

But let's be real, I type kinda formally, like an AI, sooo

Personally I feel like I am healing. I haven't signed into reddit since they bent the knee to musk. I have noticed that I have become less toxic. I still go off half cocked like an idiot but I have been more tactful about it. I hope to keep working on it because I honestly never noticed until I had been away from reddit for a few weeks.

I haven’t signed into reddit since they bent the knee to musk.

What did I miss here? Reddit hates musk.....

Your IP address/device fingerprint has been blacklisted. They do daily (possibly a few times throughout the day) automated bans of any accounts that visit the site from IPs of users they have banned. Commenting automatically triggers an IP check so you're banned instantly, but if you didn't even comment your account would be banned by the end of the day.

I tested this after I wiped and deleted my accounts back when they made all the API changes. They undeleted my account, undeleted all of my posts, and then permanently banned my account. I then signed in to one of my alt accounts that has never commented to see if they had banned it, and they hadn't - until a few hours later when it was permanently banned for "ban evasion". I created a new account to see what would happen - same thing. I then turned on the built in VPN on a browser and set it to always be active when on reddits domain and made a new account, and that account to this day is still not banned.

Spez doesn't

How did they bend the knee to musk is what I’m asking.

Started banning everyone who says mean things about Tesla and musk. Banned whole subreddits for him.

Edit: oh it’s fucking you, of course it fucking is. How much they paying you?

What's the difference between Reddit and Lemmy culturally? I thought that the people who moved over here held opinions fairly typical of Reddit.

Hmm... Reddit users tend to be less thoughtful and more ready to play to the crowd, as opposed to a more personal approach on lemmy/fediverse. It's an important distinction, that lemmy is based on the idea of being nice to people. By doing so, I hope to, and have seen, far less one-liners and dismissive jokes. It's less toxic imo. It's not perfect, but we have to work in steps, together as a society in order to get to enlightenment like that. And lemmy is a decent step away from what Reddit culture has become.

Also, I think lemmy people are a bit less selfish and more socialist as an average, which probably contributes. I think it helps to go, "capitalism bad, let me actually try to take a step away from that and try to do (at least technologically) something that's better." Personally, I'm not a communist or pure socialist, but I'm definitely not gruntled by any means with our current socioeconomic systems. I've talked to some tankie friends irl and not only do we disagree a on some things, but one person believed that what I want doesn't exist/isn't a known societal structure, which is fine to me, that just means we haven't tried it yet.

While I completely agree with you about the absence of one-liners and meme comments, and even more left leaning community, there's still that strong element of "gotcha" in discussions. Also tonnes of people not reading an article before commenting (at a better rate than Reddit probably), and a generally even more doomer attitude is common here.