Since I joined Lemmy in June this community has just been getting more and more toxic. I never see good news, just bad news, and always the same biased takes. If anyone tries to disagree or point out a silver lining they get shut down. What is going on?
I noticed this a couple months ago. Just try to look at the things you want to see or are interested in. I stopped using Lemmy on my computer cause I found going to it to be too little content and/or depressing at times. It’s kind of an echo chamber.
Reddit was better in this case. It was more subjective and had more umph. I didn’t feel like I was reading the same thing over and over. (This is my opinion. Yours can vary). If ya still like Reddit, you can use both: it’s a personal decision.
Still though, Lemmy works well enough for the morning poop on my phone with Sync.
I’m experiencing an everybody is a fascist echo chamber
Block negative communities, post good stuff, subscribe to what you care about, make nice comments, vote, eat your vegetables
I’m a bit unsure there, but it could be building frustration? Sure, a good bunch of users left Reddit for example and Lemmy had a huge influx. But Reddit didn’t die, the user numbers are going back down again.
So where others blame too much growth on bad quality posts and comments, I’d say we don’t have enough growth to sustain a lot of communities properly.
When you say “bad news” you mean like in the various “world news” type communities? Personally I haven’t found those to be much good. Subscribe to the communities that are to your liking, and make your default view of lemmy show only them. If it isn’t already strictly necessary now it will become so soon with any further growth.
Due to the fragmented nature of the Fediverse, it becomes easy to use bots to post manipulative political posts. Real people can do the same, either in ideological support or as a misinformation campaign. Anger sells and manipulation has real world benefits.
Misanthropes have more time alone, away from society, and are here eager to give you their hot take.
!risa@startrek.website nothing but good vibes
Most of your comment history is pretty toxic. If you disagree with most of the users, maybe you’re just the minority here?
Pro-establishment Chads are the most oppressed class of them all.
Hey now, real men. Real white men. Real white heterosexual men. Real white heterosexual christian men…. They’re really oppressed nowadays. Can’t anyone grab a little pussy anymore, as a joke of course, without being oppressed!!!
I’ve blocked all the news communities for a start. Maybe I’ll let one through eventually, but I’m sick of seeing 13 duplicate posts about how Elon Musk said that penguins can’t be trans or something equally useless.
As for getting more toxic in general I haven’t noticed anything drastic but my gut feeling is that as Lemmy grows, more people see a post, and as more people see a post, the better the odds that one person is going to start an argument. Even if 99.99% of the Lemmy community is not toxic, it only takes one person to reply.
Tbf he is the leading expert on aquatic fowl gender theory
I’m getting there. One by one, I’m leaving the news communities, because they’re so deranged.
It’s frustrating, though, cuz Reddit (for better & worse) was a pretty good source of news, and a good place to discuss it. Yes there was a lot of noise, but most of the time the top few comments were worth reading. Sometimes it was legit deep analysis, sometimes insider knowledge about the politics/business/culture in question. Then below that, there was the bog-standard predictable takes and the shit-slinging.
On Lemmy, you only seem to get the latter. I guess it’s just not big enough, or skews young and inexperienced.
I’ve blocked all the news communities for a start.
I’ve done the same. Works wonders for my mental health.
beehaw.org might be more in line with what i think you are expecting
I’m noticing the same. Maybe the chill people are slowly having enough of the more toxic people and are going somewhere else. I’m not really enjoying the constant barrage of far-left biased news and opinions. I just want to chill but it seems to permeate everything. Things aren’t always great in the world, but personally I come here to not be reminded of that.
Hmm, i see the same but from the other direction.
If you see someone being an ass, just call them out, especially if it’s in a community you like.
I think that may be part of what OP is seeing. If someone agrees with something they may just up vote and move on but if they disagree then they may actually engage and comment. That person may be in the minority but there isn’t much to say if you agree with someone. Reddit had the annoying “This” but it doesn’t really add anything
there was a bigger sense of community in june
reddit employees trying their best
there’s “feel good” communities out there, but they’re not very active. the active communities are very toxic because they’re arguing about ideologies - tankies, *.ml communists, hamas apologists, and etc vs normal non-insane people. the arguing is why the communities are active.
if you unsubscribe to the active communities you’ll see a lot less negativity - but your feed will be basically static & boring.
Your literal last comment to a post titled “‘Gaza will be liberated’: Tens of thousands march in S.F. to support Palestinians”
liberated through saturation bombardment maybe
Yikes
i’ve noticed that you like to follow me around and make similar comments.
Naw, me seeing you is incidental man, it’s still a small Fediverse. It is interesting how often our paths cross though! Never miss a chance to say hello!
