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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Yes. I have taken to blocking communities because my energy and mood is a precious resource I need to protect. I know already the world is in a bad place.
We do need to address certain toxic traits that are bringing things down, hyper negativity is the default as well as intense partisanship to the point where anyone with a slightly unpopular opinion is instantly labeled as an troll, bot, or agent of dark forces - you can see it a dozen times just in this thread.
There is no debate here because anyone who doesn't follow the groupthink is chased out, the news is super biased because of this but it also spills over in to everywhere.
I think there are too many people that think they should be the dictator of lemmy, we really need to start up voting good posts and useful content rather than knee-jerk down voting.
The echochamber formed fast and hard here. It's really sad to see. It feels less like a new place and more like another clubhouse. And ffs, content is so slow. Gotta surf top of all time and still barely find content.
Yeah. This place is turning into a weird echo chamber. I guess since conservatives have a habit of fleeing places as well when they don't like it, maybe the same thing happened here. (Examples such as escaping cities to the country, homeschooling, constant denomination splinters in Churches whenever a mainline one gets too left wing, brexit, etc. any other examples of conservatives splintering welcome.)
You'll die one day
And you'll have to live every day until then.
See! This is the positivity we all want!
Omg YES. I am so tired of seeing bad news all the time, all it does is ruin your day. I come to Lemmy to unwind and escape reality, to look at some funny memes and forget my life for a bit, not to be constantly reminded of all the horrible things happening in the world.
Post the content that you wish to see.
I do. It's not enough.
No-discussion downvoters are a massive problem here moreso than any other site I've ever used.
Agreed
You mean there's good news out there?
More memes than anything, I used to scroll AskReddit all the time and it was usually interesting to read.
Nah, I kinda like it, keeps my mornings sufficiently spicy and grounded. I tend to be more upbeat when I get too in my shit, and so it's mostly better if I can browse around horrible doomposts and depressing shit when I need it. Certainly, I tend to like it better than cheerful nonsense that tends to either amount to played out references, or tribalistic bashing, though, that's not to say doomposts can't really be in that same vein either.
In any case, you're gonna see them because they're more likely to survive and get attention. This is good, for bringing awareness, maybe bad for explanatory power or sustained activism, but it strictly has more survival power in the attention economy, when compared to normal posts.
Unsub from news and politics first and foremost. If something important happens, you'll hear about it. Just make sure you keep some open channel (IRL!) to keep an ear in.
Then start focusing on communities where people recognize each other's names. You can either be big, or you can be intimate. Trying to approach tiny Lemmy like it's big anonymous Reddit is going to be disappointing. You're missing an opportunity if you're not engaging with familiar names.
Agree. The amount of people doom saying, massively blowing things out of proportion, or having victim complexes is out of control. If you got all your news from Lemmy, you'd think society as we know it is about to collapse.. or at least American society.
Reddit has a lot of downfalls, but at least it was diverse and the memes were better.
the memes were better.
[X] Doubt
Still miss 2westerneurope4u
I've blocked so many communities and users, that I'm scared to look at how big my list is...
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