I try to be mindful of my Lemmy image/persona since I try to be supportive and educational here. I don't have a problem with sharing my personal beliefs, but I try to keep it constructive and not too judgemental.
I've spent a lot of time cultivating the community where I spend most of my time posting content to, and I like all the comments people share on a daily basis because it's a positivity oriented community.
Between things in real life and fighting feelings of burn out here, it's been a bit tougher to stay motivated. One thing I've been noticing more lately, and I'm not sure how to deal with it, and I'm curious how you all deal with it.
If you have regular commenters that you like in your community, but you see them being kinda shitty in other communities, does that affect you?
I know there are stressful things going on just about everywhere, but it's tough when I see people I look to for positivity in return for my work having bad takes or saying things that make me feel less happy about them.
The broadest recent example is probably the Luigi/United Healthcare assassination. Without getting into a whole thing, I don't support it the way many have expressed here, but I can empathize with the reasoning behind why Luigi has broad support. But I see people I like saying what I feel are pretty hateful things, and I'm having a hard time separating what they show me of themselves in our positive space with what I'm seeing of them in the general Lemmyverse.
I don't know if I should just ignore it, but I don't feel there Is really any ideal way to discuss too much as I don't want to alienate people from my content. I don't use any alta as that just seems like too much work, but now I kind of want to avoid people a little bit.
Just curious if any of you go through anything similar and to see how you deal with it.
I've had to block a lot of communities in order to maintain my sanity. Like, others are free to do as they choose but I should have that freedom as well too, yeah?
It's the Nazi bar problem: how do you be friends with a Nazi, who is nice to you most of the time? (The difference here is that Nazis were and neo-Nazis are Alt-Right, while the ones we are talking about here are Alt-Left, but is there all that much difference, really? both are okay with murder as not the last but somehow rather almost the first resort, having no clue about the horrors that they would unleash upon society if they got their way - and just exactly like the Alt-Right, their way is the only way, no openness to discussions to the contrary).
Highly ironically, Reddit used to have this problem, and do you know what they did about it? They banned the leftist extremists, enticing them to create Lemmy as a Reddit replacement. i.e., this is not merely a Nazi bar - it's their bar, while we are the freeloaders here. I find that thought highly interesting...
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