Stop doomposting and start DOOMposting.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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I think Reddit is much worse at the moment. Don't go there unless you want to worsen your situation.
Sometimes it's required to step away from reading news for a while. Now that there's US elections, the world is going to focus on that, creating all sorts of doom news. Also you can build your frontpage yourself, simply unsubscribe from the doom Lemmy's and only read the positive ones.
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Today I've seen someone trying fiction novels for the first time and another post extolling the virtues of Ferrero Roche chocolates.
You see how you are.
Which makes me want to check in and ask if you are ok?
Oh my, yes.
It was a weird cultural thing on Reddit, too.
You see a doomer user and your response is to block the community?
I think I've found the problem... User error.
Agreed. This trend is "block things that make me uncomfortable" is a tragedy of the commons thing. Sure, you made YOUR feed better, but you've ceded the commons to the stuff you hate.
Blocking someone does not silence them. It just means you personally have put your fingers in your ears.
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Fear and anger sell, which is why so much news media is focused on things that make people angry and afraid. Same with politicians. This place isn't inherently trying to push anything (not the way the media does), but it certainly reflects the stuff that people are talking about.
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You should probably just block some of the news comms. Often you can find news elsewhere anyway so it's not the most pressing or interesting thing to follow tbh.
I have two accounts. One with nothing blocked, and this one were I blocked all the serious subs, news subs, depressing subs, etc. so that I could switch to it when things got overwhelming.
Ended up being so much happier with the filtered feed I almost never flip back. I'm still aware of current happenings from other sources and Lemmy is my chill out spot and I love it.
I added porn subs into my main. Break up the doom with boobies
What do you mean with "doom" stuff?
For me, "doomposting" means not just posting negative news, but posting arguments that it's futile to try and make things better.
Probably "bad news", i.e. news stories about bad stuff happening. Which, unsurprisingly, is most news.
I didn't see what's bad about it, people usually have to deal with "bad" stuff it's just part of being alive, unless you want to live in a fantasy echo chamber.
Some people get stressed about seeing bad news constantly and have a hard time separating themselves from the news. Hence the term doomscrolling.
OP sounds like that kind of person. Perhaps you don't experience it like that - consider yourself lucky :)
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I never see that. You must be subscribed to different communities than I.
I browse all, so my subscriptions are not really influencing it and I see the same thing OP does.
I have my own instance and only subscribe manually to stuff I want to. I see no gloom at all
I think it's just marketing and propaganda. The companies, corporations and political forces that want to drive the world wide internet conversations are spilling over and leaking into everything including Lemmy.
Lemmy.News has a whole group that is constantly pushing war rhetoric against Russia ... lots of other groups are either right leaning or drifting to far right sentiments.
It's the same thing that is happening in the real world. Everyone has an opinion and if we were all honest and showed it, the world overall is a fairly liberal, open and accepting civilization.
Unfortunately, the loudest voices are those with the most extreme views and more often than not, they have a lot of money and funding behind them because wealthy people are pushing an agenda.
It's not that the world has become worse, is that the worst of us have become the loudest voices while the majority of us choose not to say anything.
"Fuck Putin" is not a far right position, let's clear that up right now.