I feel more bored nowadays…
To be frank the overwhelming amount of trump news is starting to make me feel drained
I should post some art on the furry communities to cheer up the placeI’ve noticed I spend less time on Lemmy than I did on Reddit. Some of that may have to do with content, but I think it’s mostly Lemmy isn’t manipulating what I’m looking at to keep the dopamine hits coming. It definitely feels like withdrawal at times.
I am learning to appreciate the joy of opening Lemmy after I checked it a few hours ago and not seeing anything new and having the freedom to close the app again.
Yeah, it keeps me honest. If there’s nothing more to look at, I’m more apt to pick up a book or work on the side project more.
I honestly don’t mind. Before this was the replacement go to site after the API fiasco elsewhere. Now I feel like coming on here only makes me sad and depressed; so I stopped coming on here even though I was mostly a lurker. I stopped getting any enjoyment from browsing the internet or my old internet hobbies.
Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.
I post daily and have a fairly steady amount of up votes and comments. This time of year interaction dies down pretty noticeably. I used to think it was me and I was doing something wrong, but people are just doing spring stuff and not on here as much. They’ll be back. There’s a couple periods a year where it happens. It’s just more noticeable here since we have less people.
Nah, I’m just checking it more often, which is a sign I need to take some preventative corrections towards my mental health now that I think of it
Hey now, no need to call me out so hard lol
Gotta build the community. This is not a bot driven Russian/american Propaganda machine. Its humans. A lot like forums from ye olden days, which were far better.
Real humans aren’t posting click bait 2000 times a minute.
Not quieter, no, but the memes are all gone now. It’s just “This is how fucked the world is” now. I miss the funny memes.
Make sure you’re following some fun stuff too. Otherwise it just gets depressing.
Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.
there’s plenty of comics content posted across a range of communities…
The problem is that I’m enjoying it and want to consume more than is there.
I might actually start posting instead of just commenting. It’s horrible.
It happens from time to time. Post and comment more.
Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x
Ahhhhh no I dont wanna touch grass.
The grass is lava.
(I’ve been procrastinating my writing project for like… months… probably a year… lol)
(Did you know, the outside world has monsters that will abduct people and eat them?
USA btw… ICE… 👀)
You might like this post of mine
The devs seem happy with Lenny not growing and the numbers seem to indicate that Lemmy isn’t growing unless brought on by an external source.
Weirdly in my own personal experience, a lot of social media spaces have been quieter, with many people I know who used to be avid posters are now no longer posting at all.
For the fediverse specifically, there’s definitely higher activity hours and low ones. Sometimes refreshing the feed has nothing new for like ~20 minutes, and sometimes its every time I refresh, which is kind of odd.
They’re all on TikTok now.
I feel this. I stopped using almost all social media except pie fed (if you can call pie fed social media). This makes me part of the disappearing voices elsewhere, I used to be pretty active elsewhere.
I’ve seen a lot more pro violence posts and comments lately, which is pretty off putting. I’ve not posted several times because I don’t want to end up on a list because of some echo chambers of maladjusted people. I don’t comment that often to begin with, and lemme/piefed seems to attract people banned from other platforms and other weirdos. Just not a very welcoming platform.
I’ve seen a lot of violence posts coming from non us users. It seems there’s some kind of effort to incite the us into violence going on and I don’t like it one bit.
Maybe, just maybe there’s some kind of reason why people from other countries hate the US more, recently?
Same. It was chill then suddenly about the last few weeks there is a lot of animosity on average posts.
There’s suddenly a lot more extreme views. Almost like ganging up to make people shrink or censor.
And finally a spike of relationship drama posts. They feel fake and fishy. Maybe bots.
Yeah, whoever is posting this pro violence content should get punched in the face
I’ve seen a lot more pro violence posts and comments lately, which is pretty off putting.
I don’t see much if any content promoting violence myself but if I was I would agree with you. I also don’t post any, and was not banned from anywhere: I left reddit the moment I realized I disagreed with their policy.
So, if I may ask: have you tried using the settings to decide what’s (not) displayed in your home feed, coupled with keywords and blocking the most obvious trolls, those are fine tools to remove most if not all of that… sad content.
For example, on my home feed I only display ‘Subscribed’ content meaning that the only content I read comes from those communities I’m already subscribed to… none of which promoting any violence or, when this happens or when I realize some community is not what I expected it to be I just unsubscribe from it and I don’t have to read it ever again. Also, I don’t hesitate to block people the moment I realize they’re to trigger emotions and provoke, not to discuss.
Edit: clarifications.
People started yelling at each other more than on all the stuff I blocked on reddit, so I only check it every couple weeks now. I check back bc if it ends up 100% negative I’ll delete it from my phone, but I still have hope ppl will be kinder
