Ask Lemmy

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.

It's not just you, but it's not just Lemmy either. Anywhere I go, I need to prune subs or else my feed becomes more and more pessimistic.

I think as a species we have a mental bias that focuses on what needs changing and not what's okay as it is.

Absolutely. I second the heavy use of blocking communities using an app. If you still want exposure to news you can consider downloading a couple news apps and checking them once or twice a day. You will still see the shittier aspects of humanity but at least you can do it when you choose to.

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.

It probably reflects the minds of the people. With good reason. It will take proactive curation of your feed to avoid it. Good luck

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.

Post the content that you wish to see.

Lemmy, and .ml in particular is absolutely infested with right wing trolls hiding behind the thinnest veneer of leftism who are trying to doom post over the economy and geopolitics hoping young voters will check out and not vote.

It's literally the exact same playbook from 2016, and it's amazing more people don't see it.

Where are the creators? The cosplayers? The rube goldberg machines made out of post it's and shot glasses? The "I draw pictures by playing notes on a piano" people? The people porting Doom to a yoga mat? The "I made a car out of thrown out Crocs" people? The "I built a treadmill for my friend's overweight insects" people?

This is the stupidest shit I could think of but people are out there making and doing weirder/amazing-er things... Where are those people in Lemmy? I browse All and it's just politics, linux, and shit posts.

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.

A lot of the "interesting" posts on Reddit were created by bots. A LOT of bots.

Yes! I'm also very tired of the repetitive "capitalism bad. America bad. XYZ terrible for the environment" replies. We get it, you have things you don't like. You don't need to repeat it on literally every single subject that exists. There are so many low-effort comments that just recycle the same 3 subjects over and over again, regardless of the actual original topic.