My feeds seem very focused on hard information be it Gaza, tech companies doing bad things, or people pitchforking about the lastest big bad in digital privacy. This is all well and good, but it does get a bit tired after a while. Seeing the samey stuff post after post by academic types makes me more informed but also mentally draining.

Where's the fun? On Facebook and Instagram I see light fluffy popcorn type posts of people reminiscing over Nintendo games or reels of cockatiels being cockatiels. It's fun to scroll and interact. Here it feels like I'm in a classroom, and people, while friendly, do get quite hostile if you don't like Linux or Star Trek.

As a leftist I like it here because it's my bubble of people, but I'd like to see the fedi let its hair down a bit. It's okay to talk about stuff other than infosec, privacy guides, distros, and Gaza.

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[–] vivavideri 2 points 9 months ago

Find the art communities & cat ones! There's some car ones but they're less active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

jUsT mAkE coNtEnT

[–] laverabe 1 points 9 months ago

scaled sort is kinda more fun than regular sorting. Less seriousness

[–] Tyfud 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reddit was similar in the beginning.

So was Digg.

So was Prodigy.

So were School BBSes.

[–] Tyfud 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just so I don't sound like some jackass saying "stick with it, it'll all work out":

This is the way the internet used to work. It used to work a lot closer to the fediverse, where you just had "token rings", or networks of sites that banded together and shared links and promoted content from each other.

They were all hosted by random people who cared about the topics the communities were involved in, be it agriculture, painting, technology, politics, hunting, fishing, hiking, racing, swimming, etc. etc.

Central social networking services like Facebook/Twitter/Reddit are a relatively new invention, and is not how the internet used to work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Yeah, where's the fun? There's no posts about owls/bats/invertebrates/cats/dogs, no cooking or food posts, no pictures of people knitting socks, nobody asking general questions, no articles and pictures about space, no discussion around movies/tv/books, nobody ever posts about gaming of any kind, there's no memes to be found anywhere, no poems or short stories, no digital/traditional/AI art.

For some reason browsing news/politics/technology always seems to revolve around depressing and infuriating topics which is different from every other platform.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

go out and plant a shrub

[–] mycathas9lives -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you for the insightful post. My experience is similar and I have not found the place where I fit in best. And the area of operation is a lot smaller with a lot less opportunity. I will stick around and figure it out while the number of users increases. It will happen. Eventually. I think. Hopefully.

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