I don’t know how some people stay on [big social media] while constantly hating being on [big social media].
Because it is psychologically engineered to be addictive. Quitting social media is probably on par with quitting smoking.
In what fucking dream world isn’t fediverse filled with ragebait?
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.
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.
Yes. Filter lists to subscribe to would be a big help to new users.
Especially if we could generate a default one that just includes some kind of median block/filter set generated from previous choices across users on the current instance.
Then a new user could just make one early choice: “Automatically filter unpopular content” or “see everything”.
And if you just go to the “right server and communities” you get isolated in echo chambers.
Damned if you do…
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: 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!
You: [ragebait]
Also you: [stupid engagement bait shit]
You don’t know what any of those terms mean, do you?
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No, I’m just queer and Poly.
The right doesn’t like that I have multiple relationships and am sexually attracted to all genders.
I don’t see any rage bait on Lemmy…
I’ve seen it from that abc account
That’s because your too dumb
That’s because your too dumb
The irony from this comment cannot be described.
The enraged see all posts that disagree with them as “rage bait”.
Rage against the dying of the light, sweet prince
Yet you doomscroll!
And there’s plenty of ragebait.
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.
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.
Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.
Can you explain? Do you mean up/downvotes?
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.
Election Cycle upcoming in USA, and cause USA are so damn loud all the damn time, it ends up so the world hears about it
Yeah, now it’s especially bad
Block all the politics, news, and regional communities you see. It really helps a lot. I mostly see comics, memes and Star Trek jokes now.
I have another account here where I tried to do that, and my feed consisted of three posts a day, two of which are comics reposted from reddit.
I doomscroll on the Fediverse, thank you very much.
It’s boringer, but at least it’s completely free from manipulation.
Paginated doomscrolling.
Literally doing it right now.
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
Most people I talk to pretend like it’s too complex. They’re upset about a single company controlling their social media, but scared about not having that.
I gave up trying once I realized the large majority of humans today dont know what a filepath is.
I’ll retreat to my cave now.
dont know what a filepath is.
I have a friend who teaches a highschool computer elective and lesson 01 is Folders, creating them, what they are, etc.
Thank goodness. But shouldnt that be elementary? I was doing that when I was like…6…and there was no internet.
You’d think. But we are admittedly engaging in some boomer ass thinking right now.
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.
I mean knowing what something is and using it can be 2 different things. Most people can save things to their computers or make a folder. They just have no reason to know the technical term or how the computer saves it behind the scenes, if you told them they’d likely remember.
Always hated the if someone doesn’t know a specialized word in your profession or hobby they’re dumb mentality
Also my computer stopped asking where I wanted to save things and just kept uploading to the cloud
And that’s why I’ve never synced any accounts to my laptop
While that is true and important to mention, im also getting reports from teachers saying a lot of the kids, even the older ones, also dont even know of the concept of a file. An image is just an image that can be dragged between apps. A folder is for apps. Everythings an app!
Been some time since i was substitute, so maybe the claims are a bit exaggerated. Could be the commenter was referring to this trend?
Seriously. That’s like me thinking someone’s dumb because they don’t understand the function of chloroplasts in a cell or something. Not everyone in the world is into your specialty.
I would argue you should understand the tool you’re using
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.
Except GTK where I still have to type Ctrl+L to request that it graciously allow me to enter a path.
Same with nemo file explorer…annoying ha
It’s almost as if, it’s an addiction
Well written.
it is significantly harder to find the “right” instance if you want to actually see varied content and not just leftyslop and tech.
There is no right instance for that, because the whole fediverse doesnt have that many users, and of those, a great many post that kind of stuff. It’s not my cup of tea either (at least not to such a great degree, without a community for most of my hobbies) but I’m OK enough with it to stay for the shitposts and to hope it grows (but not too much!)
and of those, a great many post that kind of stuff.
No, it’s a few creating dozens posts a day.
With federation, you shouldn’t need to consider that, browse, and participate with remote instances freely. Unless what you want to see is largely defederated, in which case, you should probably think about why it’s against the social contract of so many instances.
maybe if the majority of instances stopped devaluing genocide by grouping mass slaughter and colonialism with it I wouldn’t notice such a lack of opposition to any anti-capitalist ideology.
I was very frustrated at everyone getting mad at twitter, and then going to bluesky instead of mastodon.
At a certain point, once everyone is there everyone else has to go there.
I will say fedi right now has a pretty good vibe. Some of the more negative/angry people have left and its been a chill little community lately.
At least with bluesky you can bridge to the fediverse and vice versa. So you can keep it comfy on the fediverse
Yeah I do that on my personal gotosocial instance. Works well actually.
I wish there was a really lightweight version of piefed/lemmy that can work on a tiny pi instance like my gotosocial. But this instance is good too.
Pick one:
- Complicated to selfhost so the mayority uses the main server
- Simple to selfhost, hosted by many in their cabinet, total win; copyparty, syncthing, navidrome, immich, gotosocial, haven, radicale, gancio
Surely that’s just not possible due to how much an instance potentially needs to do with everything you subscribe to?
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.
Would you describe yourself as a balanced person? Have you made many postive comments on here to balance out all of your negative ones?
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.
Maybe different for different people, but I don’t mind disagreement if it’s civilized. But some people come in with a ton of snark, condescension and rage, and then when it’s revealed that they don’t actually know what they’re talking about they double down, of course. I’ve started just blocking when I see the initial symptoms now.
I’m sick of all this Internet, causing all these problems
Fuck this internet thing
I’m sick of this shit.
Social websites are basically urinal stalls that people graffiti on.
Corporate control and toxic trolling are completely unrelated problems.
In fact, corporate control used to be one of the primary ways to REDUCE toxic trolling before all the tech platforms went mask off when they realized the political levers are now in the hands of those very trolls.
It’s a problem inherent in humanity. The only way to get rid of trolling, self-promotion, and toxicity is to get off the internet altogether.
Fediverse isn’t all that great though despite all the cope, scroll through all and you see that it’s 50% news slop about how US conservatives bad that’s designed to keep you scrolling, 35% porn, 5% leftoid memes and 10% for everything else, pretty much like reddit minus the copious amount of rightoids. The culture is also pretty much the same.
Engagement and upvote hunting also does play a role, else there wouldn’t be people who make posting their day job or (as of late) bots automatically scraping popular posts from reddit to post here.
Like sure it’s decentralized, but what good does it do when it’s almost the same in content as the bad platform it denounces?
On the fediverse you can hold real conversations with people in comments. That rarely happens on Reddit.
However as the fediverse grows, even as we are seeing in this thread, it becomes increasingly impossible.
edit Wow there really are a lot of comments here. Are people botting these or are we reaching this real level of interaction? Forget about upvotes or views this is crazy.
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.
The problem is not the tool, it’s the people using it.
Yeah, it’s like people are addicted to doomscrolling.
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.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The trouble is, there’s a bunch of awful people on the fediverse too.
I have absolutely no appetite for requiring ID to use social media, but the anonymity in any social media platform, regardless of its popularity, brings out the worst in some people.
More folks need to get comfortable with the block button. I have a list of users blocked for being shitty, but there sometimes seems to be this weird mentality that blocking users instead of debating them is weak or something.
Yeah, the ‘awful people’ in the fediverse really amount to, like, 5 to 10 people, total. Once you’ve blocked them, it’s great.
But that’s like 25% of the user base D:
/s
Jup, at the current size it is actually manageable.
Don’t forget about their endless array of alts.
Actually, nvm - on pawb.social that might legit be true, if your admin does that for you already.
Also blocking communities, if you browse all and hate most of the posts and comments there.
pseudonymity* ☝️🤓
I only experience people being shitty to me on the fediverse after I call them out for being a misogynist or misandrist or blah-phobic. Otherwise people are very inquisitive and supportive around here.
Well, Lemmy on Voyager is just doom scrolling and toxic with less content. I must be missing something if it is otherwise.
Hey, BOTH sides are toxic!
Both sides of what?
You’re not wrong.
