Since I joined Lemmy in June this community has just been getting more and more toxic. I never see good news, just bad news, and always the same biased takes. If anyone tries to disagree or point out a silver lining they get shut down. What is going on?
I never see good news, just bad news
I mean… have you lived on Earth lately?
i had a dinner today just fine
Biased!
More users will lead to a more diverse range of opinions, and groups will more fiercely fight for what they think is right when they feel validated in the comments feedback.
The pains of a growing platform.
Yes. As the platform becomes more mainstream, it more accurately reflects society at large. Which is extremely toxic at the moment. 😕 I used to think talking about our differences in forums like this would help, but it seems that no one actually wants to listen to anything but their own echo chambers anymore.
I’m down. I’ve found that people genrally want the same things, we just disagree at how best to get there.
I want to see the world burn
It is interesting to be exposed to widely different people. People talk about our internal politics but not usually about, well, socialism or agorism.
I’ve blocked all the news communities for a start. Maybe I’ll let one through eventually, but I’m sick of seeing 13 duplicate posts about how Elon Musk said that penguins can’t be trans or something equally useless.
As for getting more toxic in general I haven’t noticed anything drastic but my gut feeling is that as Lemmy grows, more people see a post, and as more people see a post, the better the odds that one person is going to start an argument. Even if 99.99% of the Lemmy community is not toxic, it only takes one person to reply.
I’ve blocked all the news communities for a start.
I’ve done the same. Works wonders for my mental health.
Tbf he is the leading expert on aquatic fowl gender theory
beehaw.org might be more in line with what i think you are expecting
When you say “bad news” you mean like in the various “world news” type communities? Personally I haven’t found those to be much good. Subscribe to the communities that are to your liking, and make your default view of lemmy show only them. If it isn’t already strictly necessary now it will become so soon with any further growth.
Like others have noted, between being a growing platform and the exodus of Reddit, theres bound to be a influx of users… Internet users. The worst…
I came here from Reddit, unable to support the site any longer. I to am see changes from when i started (initially visiting before creating an account a few months ago) and there are some changes already. But you get some good to. A better diversity of posts and more interesting things. But also ass hats. The good.ajd bad of the internet. Still. I do feel this site, at least for bow, is far less toxic then reddit… Or 4chan (lol). So… It is what it is?
We need to make the best of lemmys, and maybe we can encourage the positive over the ass hattery. (fairly certain thats a word, yea).
I’m noticing the same. Maybe the chill people are slowly having enough of the more toxic people and are going somewhere else. I’m not really enjoying the constant barrage of far-left biased news and opinions. I just want to chill but it seems to permeate everything. Things aren’t always great in the world, but personally I come here to not be reminded of that.
Politics is an ever present reality of life especially nowadays with the internet so that’s kinda why it’s everywhere. People want to vent and vent where they feel safe. If you don’t like it just scroll past, that’s what I do when I don’t really want to engage with content
Hmm, i see the same but from the other direction.
Misanthropes have more time alone, away from society, and are here eager to give you their hot take.
!risa@startrek.website nothing but good vibes
Why? I don’t know. It just annoys me without end and it lessens my what’s the word… Involvement? With the platform.
It’s always the same sour shit which gets old.
There’s only room for one opinion here or so it seems to me.
Be the change you want to see. Post content you like. Support content you want to want to see more of.
Lemmy will either expand or stagnate.
I’m a bit unsure there, but it could be building frustration? Sure, a good bunch of users left Reddit for example and Lemmy had a huge influx. But Reddit didn’t die, the user numbers are going back down again.
So where others blame too much growth on bad quality posts and comments, I’d say we don’t have enough growth to sustain a lot of communities properly.
Maybe if you provide a few examples, it would help provide some insight?
If I were to provide an example, it would probably incite a flame war right here
Be the change you want to see. But if you’re going to post something controversial you can probably expect a debate. Is that a bad thing?
Maybe your opinions are controversial?
Due to the fragmented nature of the Fediverse, it becomes easy to use bots to post manipulative political posts. Real people can do the same, either in ideological support or as a misinformation campaign. Anger sells and manipulation has real world benefits.
I’m experiencing an everybody is a fascist echo chamber
there’s “feel good” communities out there, but they’re not very active. the active communities are very toxic because they’re arguing about ideologies - tankies, *.ml communists, hamas apologists, and etc vs normal non-insane people. the arguing is why the communities are active.
if you unsubscribe to the active communities you’ll see a lot less negativity - but your feed will be basically static & boring.
Your literal last comment to a post titled “‘Gaza will be liberated’: Tens of thousands march in S.F. to support Palestinians”
liberated through saturation bombardment maybe
Yikes
i’ve noticed that you like to follow me around and make similar comments.
I noticed this a couple months ago. Just try to look at the things you want to see or are interested in. I stopped using Lemmy on my computer cause I found going to it to be too little content and/or depressing at times. It’s kind of an echo chamber.
Reddit was better in this case. It was more subjective and had more umph. I didn’t feel like I was reading the same thing over and over. (This is my opinion. Yours can vary). If ya still like Reddit, you can use both: it’s a personal decision.
Still though, Lemmy works well enough for the morning poop on my phone with Sync.
