Seriously. I feel different. I “used to” (a matter of weeks in reality) open this app and literally feel joy, sometimes thinking “man, really is different than reddit. Visceral!”
Now I feel gross like I’m doom scrolling, and cussing at strangers “bc they’re mean or not listening”… With a splash of self awareness on top, simple to see, we’re acting it all out all over again
I don’t feel anything browsing on Lemmy. People post things that are just factually not true, the tribalism is the worst I’ve seen anywhere, and most things in any topic of discussion are posted in bad faith. If you actually get angry at anything, you’re gonna have a bad time. Unfortunately, I do tend to respond in kind when people do that so I’ve called more people “stupid” or “idiot” on here than I care to admit. It doesn’t help that moderation is entirely one-sided and inconsistent. That might be a side-effect of federation, though, since smaller instances with few mods can get overrun by larger instances with orders of magnitude more people.
I hope it evens out eventually but it’s hard to see that when the only answer to mitigate the toxicity is blocking people.
It’s just the human condition. It would be better to just organize and build communities in real life again, honestly. The internet isn’t really bettering anyone’s lives anymore. Corporations destroyed it like they destroy everything.
Yeah… I read an article by a super young dude talking about his social media is primarily text and WhatsApp groups with a few friends, families, or similar circles, and just sharing thoughts and random posts there… I think discord is that for me. I haven’t done anything besides this form factor in like 6 years maybe?
Seriously. I feel different. I “used to” (a matter of weeks in reality) open this app and literally feel joy, sometimes thinking “man, really is different than reddit. Visceral!” Now I feel gross like I’m doom scrolling, and cussing at strangers “bc they’re mean or not listening”… With a splash of self awareness on top, simple to see, we’re acting it all out all over again
I don’t feel anything browsing on Lemmy. People post things that are just factually not true, the tribalism is the worst I’ve seen anywhere, and most things in any topic of discussion are posted in bad faith. If you actually get angry at anything, you’re gonna have a bad time. Unfortunately, I do tend to respond in kind when people do that so I’ve called more people “stupid” or “idiot” on here than I care to admit. It doesn’t help that moderation is entirely one-sided and inconsistent. That might be a side-effect of federation, though, since smaller instances with few mods can get overrun by larger instances with orders of magnitude more people.
I hope it evens out eventually but it’s hard to see that when the only answer to mitigate the toxicity is blocking people.
It’s just the human condition. It would be better to just organize and build communities in real life again, honestly. The internet isn’t really bettering anyone’s lives anymore. Corporations destroyed it like they destroy everything.
Yeah… I read an article by a super young dude talking about his social media is primarily text and WhatsApp groups with a few friends, families, or similar circles, and just sharing thoughts and random posts there… I think discord is that for me. I haven’t done anything besides this form factor in like 6 years maybe?