When scrolling Lemmy (compared to reddit in the past), all I see is doom and gloom / news. I don’t see interesting conversations or comments to read.
Occasionally I’ll find something, and I’ve been contributing more, but there’s just so much doom that it fills my feed.
I’ve had to unsubscribe from many communities bc it’s just doom news reposts…
Is it just me?
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I recommend going in heavy with the community and user blocking. Manually curating your feed is the only way to make social media even barely tolerable. You’ll feel some FOMO at first thinking that by blocking you’re going to miss something. Yes you are but you also wont know what you’re missing so it doesn’t matter. Personally I have set several content filters aswell so threads about Elon, Twitter, Reddit, Trump, Taylor Swift etc. get automatically hidden.
On top of this I have around 500 blocked users and about the same amount of instances (mostly porn and foreign ones) I sometimes see a thread with more replies than what I’m seeing or that a blocked user has commented on my message. When I log out to see what it is, my conclusion virtually every time is that “yep, you’re staying blocked”
This is why I’m on so many blocklists.
No. Wait.
aswell
Not really a word, my millennial friend.
That’s why.
Just added you to mine.
I can definitely see why you’re on so many blocklists.
Bro what is up with the porn instances. Before blocking them 70% of my feed we’re tits or dicks.
Are you asking why there is so much porn on the internet lol
Actually… That’s a great question lol.
Boobs are nice and fun to look at.
Absolutely. I second the heavy use of blocking communities using an app. If you still want exposure to news you can consider downloading a couple news apps and checking them once or twice a day. You will still see the shittier aspects of humanity but at least you can do it when you choose to.
Good point. I should stop using my social media as my news outlet.
Connect on Android has been key for tidying up my feed and allowing blocks by user, community, or instance.
Yes, me too. I’ve unsubscribed from the political and news communities, several weeks ago. That helps. And I don’t think it’s specifically a Lemmy problem. It’s everywhere. And since lots of people use Lemmy as a news feed, we get all the doom posts in our timelines.
Not just you at all. I read the Top 6-Hour usually, so I have been blocking communities and filtering out keywords left and right to try and reduce the constant deluge of doom. (Yes it is working)
It’s like, yeah I know we are totally hosed, I don’t need reminders every 10 milliseconds. All it leads to is learned helplessness and depression.
It’s not just you, but it’s not just Lemmy either. Anywhere I go, I need to prune subs or else my feed becomes more and more pessimistic.
I think as a species we have a mental bias that focuses on what needs changing and not what’s okay as it is.
I’m convinced that we can address needs for changes while not being doomsday cultists either; I’m pretty much doing it as much as I can while not being a drama queen about it and generally shutting the fuck up.
But it doesn’t get me much attention which I guess is what the cultists are after.
I’m like 90% sure the actual hard in doomsayers are paid posters hired by the fossil fuel lobby.
It’s become obvious that Millennials and Zoomers see fossil fuels as a curse upon the land and if they get into power they’ll do everything they can to kill the industry outright, so what’s there to do instead except to burn them out to the point that they give up?
Where they can’t get approval, they’ll instead force apathy.
I’m a millennial and have been called a “doomer” because I realize it’s essentially too late. I know people don’t like to think that, but the reality is that nothing of any significance has or is being done to curb global warming. You couple that with the fact we’ve literally poisoned everything, including ourselves, with no way to clean it up and I don’t see the quality of life for humans being great after 2050. You can blow me off as a shill if you’d like, but this is just reality. Additionally, my generation and gen z have a significant number of fascists and the pollution continues, so I don’t think that’s the solution you’re hoping for. I’d love to be wrong, but that isn’t backed by the facts.
I mean the Ottawa conference literally led to cutting temperature increase by the end of the century in half but sure kid, nothing of substance has been done.
There is nothing the fossil lobby loves more than for you to be pissy about your right to give up. You’re not just letting them win, you’re getting amgy with people pointing out that you’re letting them win.
Where was I angry? I was adding to the conversation and you decided to be a whiny asshole with your sad attempt at belittling me (kid, really?). You’re quite pathetic, bud.
Because if someone is pathetic it’s definitely not the punk going to bat for the fossil lobby’s position, definitely not.
Lol, get a life guy.
It’s become obvious that Millennials and Zoomers see fossil fuels as a curse upon the land
That’s quite a hasty generalization. May be true on Lemmy but not in the real world. Especially when it comes to millenials.
Not really, millennials and Zoomers overwhelmingly poll as either seeing the climate crisis as the biggest issue or as it being second biggest next to the affordable housing crisis,
In both cases, the fossil fuel industry is at least partially to blame
Yeah but that’s not the same as them seeing fossil fuels as a curse. A huge portion of them are more than happy to own a car.
Having to own one to be able to do anything but stay home isn’t the same as being more than happy to own one.
Get some Not Just Bikes up in yo head.
Car culture is still very much alive and well among zoomers and millenials. Your generalization doesn’t represent the reality. I’d say that around half of my male friends like owning a car. The rest of them either cant afford owning one or don’t want to because they live in a big city. Even those are more than happy to drive around with one they borrowed from their parents.
People are tiring of the shouting, though. The cultists will find out eventually that people can’t be mad all the time if you want your shit to work.
Nazism lasted 22 years. (Counting the Beer Hall Putsch to WWII surrender.)
Buckle up. It can and will get much worse, at least here in the US.
The plus side is that, even among the Nazis, there were innumerable examples of people doing good with their own two hands. No one can stop you from doing that.
I hope so… we need more discussing to help everyone find what they can do and that requires more listening and less shouting indeed.
You’ll die one day
And you’ll have to live every day until then.
See! This is the positivity we all want!
We do need to address certain toxic traits that are bringing things down, hyper negativity is the default as well as intense partisanship to the point where anyone with a slightly unpopular opinion is instantly labeled as an troll, bot, or agent of dark forces - you can see it a dozen times just in this thread.
There is no debate here because anyone who doesn’t follow the groupthink is chased out, the news is super biased because of this but it also spills over in to everywhere.
I think there are too many people that think they should be the dictator of lemmy, we really need to start up voting good posts and useful content rather than knee-jerk down voting.
Yeah. This place is turning into a weird echo chamber. I guess since conservatives have a habit of fleeing places as well when they don’t like it, maybe the same thing happened here. (Examples such as escaping cities to the country, homeschooling, constant denomination splinters in Churches whenever a mainline one gets too left wing, brexit, etc. any other examples of conservatives splintering welcome.)
Yep. It’s like everytime I comment maybe we are not really making ukrainian lifes easier by giving them bombs ppl will insult me or at the very least call me russian agent. I’ve never been in Russia, have 0 russian/simpatizer friends and I think Putin is a despot, bc he is. Five comments insulting me have been removed already. Please keep up the good work.
I can’t even tell if this is satire.
I know my opinion is very unpopular, but apparently at least 7 ppl here think I deserve to be insulted for it.
Downvotes aren’t insults and no one replied to you except me. But I’m curious, how do you think letting Russia topple Ukraine would improve their lives? That’s what not giving them weapons does, allows Ukraine to invade and take their country. And it won’t stop there, Crimea and the current war is evidence of that.
I appreciate your interest for an intellectual argumentation. I guess you mean Russia to invade Ukraine.
The same way you said downvotes of my complaint about insulting me doesn’t necessarily mean they support it, notice I never said the solution is to let Russia militarily overtake Ukraine.
Ppl love to talk how good they are doing to Ukraine, but the conflict doesn’t really seem ending anytime soon. I just admit I don’t know myself how this mess is solved.
That said, if I was ukrainian I would totally prefer to be supported by allied troops, not only bombs. Instead we made Ukraine Europe’s real life Battlefield game. Good to test new military equipment and watch russians being blown up from our warm livingrooms and coffee tables.
Are you Russian or Chinese by chance? I typically don’t hear people saying that Russia is doing a great job, instead I usually hear what you say, that it will probably go on for a long time.
Western countries giving support, weapons, and ammunition to Ukraine and also volunteers from other countries going to fight with them mean that they have a chance at holding Russia off. If Western support were to end, Russia would fairly quickly take over and annex Ukraine, which they promised not to do again after Crimea. Russia thought this would be a quick 3 day special operation, but they underestimated Zelenskyy and his ability to bring Ukraine together, so it’s turned into a 2 year war. After 2 years, Ukraine doesn’t have the supplies needed to hold them off.
However, if NATO invoked Article 5 for any physical or cyberattacks against, say, Poland, or if the US or any country decided to send boots on the ground in Ukraine, Putin and military leaders have threatened the use of nuclear force too many times to chance calling their bluff as when it comes to nukes, you only have to be wrong once and the entire world suffers.
So it’s a complicated situation but currently the only outcomes seem to be supporting them with weapons and ammunition and intelligence, or letting them to fall to Russia.
Dude, did you even read my comment earlier? I said I don’t even have russian friends or simpatizers. What makes you still believe I’m russian?
Anyways, all you say is captain obvious staff. Nothing new or own thinking process. I guess it’s easier to sleep at night when all is figured out.
Listen one thing: it’s true Putin threatens with nukes in case Nato troops join the fight. You are 100% sure the right solution for this conflict is to aid Ukraine militarily. But didn’t Putin also threaten to use nukes if Ukraine was to win the war?
The echochamber formed fast and hard here. It’s really sad to see. It feels less like a new place and more like another clubhouse. And ffs, content is so slow. Gotta surf top of all time and still barely find content.
I’m tired of the “DAE” posts that got banned in reddit, and I understand why. There’s usually a better way to express this opinion.
To entertain this though, this is an internet wise concept, we’re aware of “doomscrolling” for a reason. There’s not really a reason to think Lemmy or some other platform would be wildly different.
I never see that. You must be subscribed to different communities than I.
I browse all, so my subscriptions are not really influencing it and I see the same thing OP does.
I have my own instance and only subscribe manually to stuff I want to. I see no gloom at all
I think it’s just marketing and propaganda. The companies, corporations and political forces that want to drive the world wide internet conversations are spilling over and leaking into everything including Lemmy.
Lemmy.News has a whole group that is constantly pushing war rhetoric against Russia … lots of other groups are either right leaning or drifting to far right sentiments.
It’s the same thing that is happening in the real world. Everyone has an opinion and if we were all honest and showed it, the world overall is a fairly liberal, open and accepting civilization.
Unfortunately, the loudest voices are those with the most extreme views and more often than not, they have a lot of money and funding behind them because wealthy people are pushing an agenda.
It’s not that the world has become worse, is that the worst of us have become the loudest voices while the majority of us choose not to say anything.
“Fuck Putin” is not a far right position, let’s clear that up right now.
What do you mean with “doom” stuff?
For me, “doomposting” means not just posting negative news, but posting arguments that it’s futile to try and make things better.
Probably “bad news”, i.e. news stories about bad stuff happening. Which, unsurprisingly, is most news.
I didn’t see what’s bad about it, people usually have to deal with “bad” stuff it’s just part of being alive, unless you want to live in a fantasy echo chamber.
Some people get stressed about seeing bad news constantly and have a hard time separating themselves from the news. Hence the term doomscrolling.
OP sounds like that kind of person. Perhaps you don’t experience it like that - consider yourself lucky :)
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Fear and anger sell, which is why so much news media is focused on things that make people angry and afraid. Same with politicians. This place isn’t inherently trying to push anything (not the way the media does), but it certainly reflects the stuff that people are talking about.
Lemmy on the whole is absolutely trying to push something: CCP and Kremlin propaganda.
No, some people might be, but Lemmy isn’t a corporate entity like Reddit or Facebook, it just reflects the users (some of whom are shills).
Yes, you’re right.
You should probably just block some of the news comms. Often you can find news elsewhere anyway so it’s not the most pressing or interesting thing to follow tbh.
I have two accounts. One with nothing blocked, and this one were I blocked all the serious subs, news subs, depressing subs, etc. so that I could switch to it when things got overwhelming.
Ended up being so much happier with the filtered feed I almost never flip back. I’m still aware of current happenings from other sources and Lemmy is my chill out spot and I love it.
I added porn subs into my main. Break up the doom with boobies
Omg YES. I am so tired of seeing bad news all the time, all it does is ruin your day. I come to Lemmy to unwind and escape reality, to look at some funny memes and forget my life for a bit, not to be constantly reminded of all the horrible things happening in the world.
