I came here around the time the rif app shut down, and the general vibe I get from this place is much more negative than when I joined. Is Lemmy growing more toxic or is it just my imagination?
I considered making a really insulting comment on this just for fun, but I just can’t be arsed.
I appreciate the honesty.
Yeah. I’ve enjoyed Lemmy casually for years, but this last year has really killed my desire to read or post here.
For me it’s everywhere. I still come to these things out of habit or because i don’t have energy for a regular hobby, but it’s getting draining. All of social media just brings me back to politics, even if funny memes are in between. I also have a habit of reading comments, and then some dingus brings the one non political thing back down to politics anyway.
Such is life on the internet sometimes I guess
It’s more along the lines of people making an elephant out of an anthill. Your average person is a draa-addict
There’s a setting in voyager that shows you how you voted on other people. I use that to block people… if you are -5 to me then I’ll never see you again 😘 Lemmings.world people are among the worst somehow… just saying
Hmm… maybe. The state of the world has been pretty awful for the past year so I imagine that plays a part. Aside from trolls, lots of us are on edge as the whole world seems to tilt right with propaganda and AI.
That said, I like us.
I browse bluesky too and find I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s a bit more self-policing… Like regarding AI slop, bluesky is fucking rampant with it, like Trump dressed as a clown or Newsom with abs, it’s fucking awful. Lemmy has a couple communities for AI but on average, you try that shit and you’ll get publicly shamed. That could be considered mean, but I appreciate it (especially if it’s AI I can’t even tell).
Post quality go down. Echo chamber go up.
You want a piece of this??
I don’t know that I’ve noticed a real uptick. But in the past couple weeks I have noticed a few ridiculous right wingers and I blocked most of them since seeing their bullshit is bad for my mental health.
Yeah maga place looks like it’s up to 21 idiots sharing a brain cell now, whereas I think it was 12 a couple weeks ago. Wonder if there’s a critical mass for those fucks or if they’ll find lemmy too progressive to stick around. I guess they could just circlejerk on their own instance.
Not that I’ve noticed, but the whole world is growing more toxic as far-right ideology becomes more and more accepted everywhere, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
As the space becomes more popular, the level of social cohesion goes down.
Also, every space on the internet where users talk is now infested with shit chatbots trying to keep poor people angry with each other to prevent us from flaying rich people alive
Does it actually get more popular? I see Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin together at around 40k monthly active users. It hasn’t really gained a lot of new active users, the peak was 50k monthly active users a while ago, so it seems to get less popular.
It doesn’t feel unique to Lemmy to me. I’m seeing higher levels of hostility in just about any environment broad enough to include left and right wingers
I have been threatened and harassed in person multiple times the past few years. but left and right wingers. by trans and anti-trans folks, etc. i’ve had people shove and try to physically start fight with me while i was waiting for a takeout order or coffee.
angry people just want to beat up any one that is in front of them. and they will see what they want to see. the angry left assumes i’m a meathead trump supporter, the angry right assumes i’m a soyboy homo.
So wait are you wearing both thigh-highs and a maga cap?
I’m resisting the urge to jump to conclusions, however I can’t help but observe that objectively there seems to be a common denominator in your situation. Either way, it sucks that that’s been your experience and I hope things change for the better for you.
So what are you really
Yup, it’s happened to me a couple of times this week alone. It’s getting silly.
Block and block often. Now if lemmy admins will just unspez their attitude about reciprocal blocks I can cull the herd of raging douche nozzles infesting every online community.
Not really. But I purposely avoid any politics related community.
It makes no difference. The single minded fuckwits will inject politics into a thread about cheese sandwiches.
This is the issue I’ve seen everywhere. Military grade TDS. Even if you want to chat about your love for onions in an onion-based community, someone will probably talk about how orange man destroyed onion farmland and is a fascist. I don’t think there’s a way to avoid the constant repetitive rage seeping into everything.
What is TDS?
Trump Derangement Syndrome, which is where people are concerned about Trump doing blatantly illegal shit (this is somehow a bad thing apparently)
One day historians will with any luck define whatever trump has as the Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I would like to note that although correct this comment is itself a bit rude
I dont care if I offend the fuckwits. Maybe they can do a little self reflection.
I would recommend you do the same. Why do you think they are bringing up politics in seemingly unrelated conversations?
Read the part I wrote about “single minded fuckwits.”
That pretty much sums it up.
Is it possible that politics has relevancy to a large portion of our lives and cannot be cleanly separated from our other experiences?
Cheese sandwiches are a tool of capitalist oppression. They are a symbol of how the working class is unable to get the nutrition they need and is yet another attempt by the liberals to make you forget their support of genocide. Eating cheese sandwiches supports genocide.
how?, please teach me your secret
Depending on your client (i use Sync so im not sure about others) but using the filters for certain keywords can block out a bit of the noise. The first two i added a while back were ‘trump’ and ‘musk’ and it was immediately more pleasant.
I use Voyager and also used keyword filters. Currently I have “Trump, Musk, MAGA, GOP, Repubilcan, Democrat” I still get mostly US political crap content… It seems these filters only apply to the titles?
