Do not project, comrade

It's a nicer flavour of doom though, not as much toxicity in the comments even when the subject matter of threads can be very doomy

Pokemon go to the polls.

See that wasn’t that hard. You can vote and you can prepare for your armed rebellion from behind your keyboard. They’re not mutually exclusive.

https://vote.org/

Pick one:

1. Complicated to selfhost so the mayority uses the main server
2. Simple to selfhost, hosted by many in their cabinet, total win; copyparty, syncthing, navidrome, immich, gotosocial, haven, radicale, gancio

Paginated doomscrolling.

I didn't do anything special to my feed, but out of the bat it's so much more depressing, rage inducing, and sensational. And the comments are way more...polarizing so to speak. There is more genuine people here than on Reddit, but every time I scroll here I stop because my heartbeat goes up. If Reddit is 50% bots doing ads and 40% ragebait, here all the ads are replaced by pure concentrated ragebait.

The truth is, it’s the most balanced people who left. Most people who remain are deep in the echo chamber, which is why it seems more chill: everyone agrees with you and the ones with realistic opinions have left.

I’m sick of all this Internet, causing all these problems

and of those, a great many post that kind of stuff.

No, it's a few creating dozens posts a day.

Fuck this internet thing

Would you describe yourself as a balanced person? Have you made many postive comments on here to balance out all of your negative ones?

In what fucking dream world isn't fediverse filled with ragebait?

have you tried different instances? piefed.social blocks nsfw/nsfl as well as ragebait political figures' names by default.

at any rate most of the complaints people have with reddit aren't about its content, they're about its slimy ass leadership, powertripping mods, and AI infestation. fediverse isn't immune to any of that but it hasn't metastasized here at least.

To be fair, I see a bit of ragebait occasionally on the fediverse too.

I've also seen a lot of smaller communities bend their own rules presumably for the sake of engagement as well. No ads is nice though and having real people around is also wonderful.

pro russian imperialism is not "left bias"

I don't think so. Tech illiteracy is at an all time high and it affects everyone's life a drastic amount. This isnt driving manual or writing cursive. Its terrifying how bad people are with tech and it allows for corpos to sow more dissent and misinformation and move us to knowledge as a service with fascism.

File path is a specialized term? Ctrl+f is specialized ? This has existed for over 25 years. Its scary people dont know absolute basics.

It'd be something else if it wasnt a thing that encompasses every aspect of our lives 24/7 every single day of our lives. Dont you think people should be knowledgeable about it ? Ive always been of the mind I should be educated about important things like that and have been learning my entire life so I know things that matter.

Its also easier than its ever been. This isnt changing a flat tire or some physical thing people are more scared to learn. This is veeeery easy reading and videos to educate yourself on how a staple aspect of your life functions.

Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.

Also, why is the guy who quit all social media "doom scrolling"? Doomscrolling what? An RSS feed?

Good for him, tbh.

The comic leaves out the whole "joining the right server and communities for you" part. If nobody tells you before joining, then you see a bunch of horrible stuff. If someone does tell you before joining, then it's a daunting prospect.

Yeah, njm1314 just seems to be trolling me at this point. It's kinda funny how transparent it is.

Another to the Block list I guess.

I did my best. Enjoy the block.

Balanced compared to most lemmy users, yes, though perhaps less than the average person. If you feel balanced on lemmy, then you are very much an extremist.

My comments seem negative because I only comment on controversial topics, and since I don’t parrot the common opinion around here, it gives them a negative tone. I never bother with the “I agree” comments like everyone loves so much, even when I do agree, because they do not incite discussion.

Literally doing it right now.

just because you believe in russian scare propaganda doesn't mean we should too.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"Anyway it's the immigrants' fault."

Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.

Can you explain? Do you mean up/downvotes?

And if you just go to the "right server and communities" you get isolated in echo chambers.

Damned if you do...

I'm sick of this shit.

It's boringer, but at least it's completely free from manipulation.

Hey, BOTH sides are toxic!

Social websites are basically urinal stalls that people graffiti on.

I don't see any rage bait on Lemmy..

You: I don't want to see Rage Bait and stupid engagement bait shit on Lemmy!

Also you: I don't want to isolate myself to only content I want to see!

Echo chamber is the new cancel culture. More often than not, someone thinks we've never heard their very common and shitty opinion.

We can have civil arguments, without trolling.

You'll also need to block a bunch of people since individual instance blocks don't block the people from the instances.

Which really ought to be a feature, IMO. And/or filter lists to which one could subscribe.

I've seen it from that abc account

You: [ragebait]

Also you: [stupid engagement bait shit]

Yet you doomscroll!

Both sides of what?

yeah comments like this are a prime example

I think it helps you can see people you agree or disagree with in a bunch of comments, you can almost get a feel for who is courteous and who is just angry.

Reddit has always been more of a anonymous feeling website for me.

Also my computer stopped asking where I wanted to save things and just kept uploading to the cloud

You don't know what any of those terms mean, do you?

And that's why I've never synced any accounts to my laptop