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.
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.
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.
No, i didn't notice that (well, except for this post and the negative post before). Maybe we subscribed to different stuff. Or i need to see more examples of such posts/comments.
Yes totally. I originally used Reddit because I was subscribed to some super-niche hobby communities. I never doom-scrolled the front page or anything. These communities don't yet exist in Lemmy yet so I'm kind of hanging around to see what happens. And yes, everything is negative. But to be fair, I didn't sign up expecting to read uplifting stories and people (or bots) are just posting clickbait garbage that the internet is already awash in anyways.
I prefer more discussion forum type communities rather than link aggregators. I just need to keep looking for what I like and subscribing to those so I can filter out the crap.
I was primarily interested in r/soapmaking, r/instantpot and r/breadmachines. Also some true crime ones - I've joined the ones I could find here but there's hardly anyone in them.
I agree. It’s the nature of the news. Vanilla feed has lots of news, and even localized communities (countries, cities) are more about news. Could be as simple as that.
Not exactly an open question - if anything, this is more of a support question related to hiding what you don't want to see. If you'd like further support, please check the sidebar for a list of suggestions. Removing under rule #3.
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.
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?
I respectfully disagree. Politics are a meta discourse. Except from urgent topics, most of that discourse is tied to interests instead of actual problems.
Simply put: Anything can be political, but the value of those politics is not within that topic - it runs next to it. And you can very much choose to engage (“make” something political) or choose to not value it. Most political discourse leads to nothing. It’s about rallying people and rarely about the topic at hand.
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.
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 wouldn't subscribe to politics if you want to feel good about the world... And tech is mostly the usual stuff about insane billionaires needing attention from the serfs to feed their little fragile egos.
some poster named Brikox, among others, are posting a big chunk of this. also a lot of redundant negtaive news posts, and endless political communities i had to block, and there still many of them yet. technology should be read from the verge on rss, or similar tech site, not here
News is negative because lawmakers are negative in the USA right now towards many communities. Not to mention war internationally and the climate crisis that is seeing the whole world affected in unprecedented ways. It’s doom in the news because we are living in doom. If we want to end the doom cycle we need to work as a species to pull ourselves out of it.
I find myself unfollowing the news and technology communities just like I did on Reddit because they are so broad that much of the content ends up being uninteresting, irrelevant etc. Like ok…but why do I need to know this, what is interesting about it. If it’s a flat news headline/story with no thought or feeling or commentary by the poster…why? What made you feel compelled to share this, what made you think we need to know, or should know, or would want to know?
May be better to create or follow more specific subsections like cool news, funny news, uplifting news, major news…or Apple tech, Android tech, future tech, tech industry, biotech.
Also lots of news stories get posted repeatedly, sometimes over multiple days, in a typical feed. If I have to read one more time about Reddit deleting chat or getting rid of gold…Jesus Christ…because everyone posts it to communities about news, Reddit, feddiverse, technology. Impossible to avoid seeing it 5 times a day for a week.