I had dealt with users on the other social media services and I always learn new stuff from interacting with people outside Lemmy.
On Lemmy, I really can’t believe what I am dealing with here.
I started using Lemmy expecting to see people with the same intelligence as Reddit or more (due to the subjective complexity of registration).
I feel that in Lemmy I am in the social media pool of edgy teenagers who can’t read.
Why is that?
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.