When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.
I’m certainly not as depressed after scrolling here as opposed to redditt. The magic pixie wranglers at Lemmy don’t seem to be as centered on eyeballs on the screen sucking your soul while you’re doom scrolling. I’ll take it as a win.
Reddit’s winning formula: repost, repost, Trump, repost, fight video, repost, repost, social media drama
I’ve noticed lately that it’s just trying to raise the temperature in the room. It has become facebook
Yeah that’s true. I get that US politics can be entertaining and lead to funny tweets, but the content inevitably makes you feel worse than before. It’s all so gloomy and brings out the worst in people. Doesn’t help that seemingly everyone is somewhat of a lunatic.
I also don’t get the fight posts. Sure you can block them for yourself, but just having them constantly on r/all for the entire platform to see can’t be good for the general climate.
Uplifting News is also often more fit for the Boring Dystopia subreddit, which I quit after a few weeks because the constant stream of negativity was slowly affecting my views and just worsened the experience for me.
All these types of content exist because they showcase a part of life, but the intensity and frequency are significantly elevated above the everyday norm. I wouldn’t want that content to be restricted, but I also think platforms need to make sure they create mostly positive places of community. I feel much more inclined to contribute if the overall feeling of the communities is inviting and open-minded, not overly cynical or divided.
Emotional and negative content simply gets tons of views and engagement and it’s therefore often in the best interest of platforms to push it to the top for everyone to interact with.
My silent hope is that that might be different for lemmy and that we can keep a more positive attitude among each other because of it.
