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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I am noticing your post, but I file it as part of the “anecdotal generalizations” trend
That’s fair :) was not meant as a statement. Just interested in opinions.
We’re in the middle of a global fascist spasm. If you want to stick your fingers in your ears and pretend it’s not happening, I think Threads is trying to be that place.
There’s a difference between sticking your fingers in your ears and just wanted to go on an app for fun and having it turned into a negative space.
Dont look into News-Communities if you dont want News
And there’s a difference between demanding everyone else post how you want them to and going somewhere people are already posting how you want them to.
You have plenty of options. You don’t need to clutter this place up with whining. Post the sort of stuff you want to see or go somewhere people are already doing that.
I did post what I want to see. A reasonable take about not everything needing to be doomer central, I’m not denying negative things happening…
You want to see a forum full of people whining about what other users choose to post?
This post is negative
You get what you get 🙃. We can help by posting some positive news ourselves!
I mean, News is always skewed negative imo. Why I don’t follow it.
And the Memmy app just added keyword filtering so I can and the worst topics! :)
No.
When cruising the All feed you must use the Block feature if you value your sanity.
You mean that site full of people screaming about Reddit for a month is full of negativity?
Gonna be captain obvious here by saying “maybe because the world is spiraling into shit?”
And everything is, absolutely by definition, political. Everything. People who think they can escape politics are delusional and privileged. If you’re reading about some horrible new law banning encryption then yes that’s fucking political. Instead of head in sanding… I dunno. Do something?
Lemmy.world’s technology community is mostly posts from the bot that just grabs everything from its feed so it’s being fed negativity from its sources. I haven’t really noticed a lot of negativity on Lemmy yet. Maybe some climate/late stage capitalism gloom but that’s reality
I don’t follow news because it’s bad for my mental health, so I don’t see the examples you listed. But I do think the initial halo-effect of “all the cool people from Reddit who truly cared about the community are now on Lemmy” is slowly fading as people are settling in more.
I’m surprised to see so many people say they haven’t seen this. Maybe the difference is that my feed is very vanilla with few blocked communities. That’s fair, though it still is something newcomers will be immediately confronted with.
To say that I “need” to see this negativity and am ignorant otherwise is a logical fallacy though. The opposite is true. We can be better.
