Ask Lemmy

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.

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.

Stop doomposting and start DOOMposting.

Yeah, times are kinda rough right now

I recommend [email protected] but it's not super active, about a post a day

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 recommend going in heavy with the community and user blocking. Manually curating your feed is the only way to make social media even barely tolerable. You'll feel some FOMO at first thinking that by blocking you're going to miss something. Yes you are but you also wont know what you're missing so it doesn't matter. Personally I have set several content filters aswell so threads about Elon, Twitter, Reddit, Trump, Taylor Swift etc. get automatically hidden.

On top of this I have around 500 blocked users and about the same amount of instances (mostly porn and foreign ones) I sometimes see a thread with more replies than what I'm seeing or that a blocked user has commented on my message. When I log out to see what it is, my conclusion virtually every time is that "yep, you're staying blocked"

[email protected] has been on fire lately and comments can spark some good learnin

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

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.

Yes. This place is relentlessly negative, and I'm no sunny optimist myself.

I aggressively block communities and on some occasions, people who are obvious agenda pushers. It takes a mildly annoying amount of work to clear away the mess and keep it cleared, but it can be done. It's okay to block shit.

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.

I say there's not enough Doom posting. RIP AND TEAR

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.

You mean there's good news out there?

I find I miss a lot of current events, only browsing Lemmy. It seems Lazer-focused on whatever it's currently worrying about, ignoring more timely news.

What makes me irritated is when I go to any kinda uplifting news places it's usually low key abelism or sexism or somethings people don't understand can harm people which is weird

Aka inspiration porn

The bubble has burst, none of the fun communities I subbed to when I came over have any active users left anymore. It's all the same 3-4 people posting news and rhetoric.

Post the content that you wish to see.

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

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.

How am I supposed to doom scroll without doom posts?

; )

My niche communities aren't active enough so I resort to browsing All.

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.

Not just you at all. I read the Top 6-Hour usually, so I have been blocking communities and filtering out keywords left and right to try and reduce the constant deluge of doom. (Yes it is working)

It's like, yeah I know we are totally hosed, I don't need reminders every 10 milliseconds. All it leads to is learned helplessness and depression.

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.