These sorts of vague sentiments, "why is the news full of negativity? And have you noticed common sense is very far from common?" are always popular -- right up until one is forced to put a finer point on what popular opinions exactly need to lose support because they lack common sense, and which ongoing crisis exactly needs to have less media exposure so as to increase the ambient positivity
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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I’m not sure if we agree about the meaning of my post. My comment/question was more about the Lemmy feed. Nobody is arguing that the news is full of negativity (it sells) and I don’t think I was making comments about people’s common sense or anything else related to society.
My feed is pretty vanilla, few filters. And in the last 2 weeks I noticed that a lot of what drips into my feed is based on negative sentiment. Something that is inherit to news maybe, but I figured Lemmy was more about communities than it is about news articles. I don’t think this topic is too vague to put a finger on, but perhaps my post has some of that same sentiment included; making it seem like a complaint too much.
I am noticing your post, but I file it as part of the "anecdotal generalizations" trend
That’s fair :) was not meant as a statement. Just interested in opinions.
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.
There's a difference between sticking your fingers in your ears and just wanted to go on an app for fun and having it turned into a negative space.
Dont look into News-Communities if you dont want News
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.
I did post what I want to see. A reasonable take about not everything needing to be doomer central, I'm not denying negative things happening..
You want to see a forum full of people whining about what other users choose to post?
This post is negative
You get what you get 🙃. We can help by posting some positive news ourselves!
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.
What community are you missing?
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 mean, News is always skewed negative imo. Why I don’t follow it.
And the Memmy app just added keyword filtering so I can and the worst topics! :)
No, my feed doesn't seem to be that bad.
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 blocked all news communities and started posted some more light hearted things such as comic strips or pictures.
No.
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 think perhaps there is just a lot of nefarious shit going on in the tech world at the moment and naturally we’re seeing a lot of negativity
You mean that site full of people screaming about Reddit for a month is full of negativity?
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.
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.
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.
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
When cruising the All feed you must use the Block feature if you value your sanity.
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