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Are you noticing the growing negativity on here? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Octane to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been enjoying the app and the community quite a bunch! However I do notice that the feed is starting to fill up with lots of negative sentiment.

The technology feed is 40% bad news, the news communities are filled with doom scroll stories and the localized communities are also complaining a lot. Some politics get added to the mix.

Lately I’ve noticed that I feel more negative about the world after a Lemmy visit.

Anyone else noticing that?

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[–] mysoulishome 1 points 1 year ago

I find myself unfollowing the news and technology communities just like I did on Reddit because they are so broad that much of the content ends up being uninteresting, irrelevant etc. Like ok…but why do I need to know this, what is interesting about it. If it’s a flat news headline/story with no thought or feeling or commentary by the poster…why? What made you feel compelled to share this, what made you think we need to know, or should know, or would want to know?

May be better to create or follow more specific subsections like cool news, funny news, uplifting news, major news…or Apple tech, Android tech, future tech, tech industry, biotech.

Also lots of news stories get posted repeatedly, sometimes over multiple days, in a typical feed. If I have to read one more time about Reddit deleting chat or getting rid of gold…Jesus Christ…because everyone posts it to communities about news, Reddit, feddiverse, technology. Impossible to avoid seeing it 5 times a day for a week.