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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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.
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.
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.
Edit: see below convo with doomsayer insisting they’re saying anything worthwhile when they push the fossil lobby line.
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 probably reflects the minds of the people. With good reason. It will take proactive curation of your feed to avoid it. Good luck
Yeah, times are kinda rough right now
I recommend !upliftingnews@lemmy.world but it’s not super active, about a post a day
Subscribed!
That community is also guilty tbh. Sorry for bringing this up, but I saw the other day about “Children school food debt” or something like that on that community, and I was like, what? How is that uplifting at all?
Yeah, it’s hard to see the “orphan crushing machine temporarily stopped” headlines as a positive for me, too. I had to stop looking at that community. It didn’t seem they were particularly open to feedback about those articles, either.
I love the whole “orphan crushing machine” term. It’s a great way to describe the ridiculous phenomenon of framing bad things as good things.
Where are the creators? The cosplayers? The rube goldberg machines made out of post it’s and shot glasses? The “I draw pictures by playing notes on a piano” people? The people porting Doom to a yoga mat? The “I made a car out of thrown out Crocs” people? The “I built a treadmill for my friend’s overweight insects” people?
This is the stupidest shit I could think of but people are out there making and doing weirder/amazing-er things… Where are those people in Lemmy? I browse All and it’s just politics, linux, and shit posts.
Where are those people in Lemmy?
Also, for those few posts of creative stuff around here, where are the people to upvote and comment on them?
I’m still okay with a bit of politics discussion, but seeing US politics on timeline everyday?? I am NOT a US citizen and I DO NOT CARE about their politics at all. And the doomerism posting, so so tired of them.
That’s why I tend to follow casual community like !artshare, music related stuff, etc. I also made a community for japanese trains, though it’s my first time running a community so I’m kinda confused how to run the community.
Hey I’m a musician/creator actually! I’m attempting to be the change I wish to see! I haven’t shared anything here because I treat Lemmy as more discussion oriented but on Mastodon I’ve shared my first Peertube upload.
I just refuse to be like those “pick me” people who are only on a platform in hopes of building their “brand”. I truly want to make friends here and if they happen to like my tunes when I occasionally share them that’s fucking dope for me. I’m seeing quite a few people like me too who are using the federation as more than the grind for fame. Overtime we will get the pick me’s, but I think we will get a lot of decent artists in it for artistry sake
Please do share your content though! Doesn’t mean your entire presence here needs to be centred around it. :)
https://tanukitunes.com/channels/supersynthiamusic. I just uploaded, thanks for the encouragement!
I say there’s not enough Doom posting. RIP AND TEAR
How am I supposed to doom scroll without doom posts?
; )
The bubble has burst, none of the fun communities I subbed to when I came over have any active users left anymore. It’s all the same 3-4 people posting news and rhetoric.
Be the change, become the active user
What makes me irritated is when I go to any kinda uplifting news places it’s usually low key abelism or sexism or somethings people don’t understand can harm people which is weird
Aka inspiration porn
Always plenty to be gloomy about, I tend to block those communities though, not because I’m in denial about it, I already know to vote Green or Democratic for like my whole life, you don’t need to convince or sway me.
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.
Kind of feels like a side effect of a US election year. But I don’t disagree.
It was happening long before this year.
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.
Yes! I’m also very tired of the repetitive “capitalism bad. America bad. XYZ terrible for the environment” replies. We get it, you have things you don’t like. You don’t need to repeat it on literally every single subject that exists. There are so many low-effort comments that just recycle the same 3 subjects over and over again, regardless of the actual original topic.
Agree. The amount of people doom saying, massively blowing things out of proportion, or having victim complexes is out of control. If you got all your news from Lemmy, you’d think society as we know it is about to collapse… or at least American society.
Reddit has a lot of downfalls, but at least it was diverse and the memes were better.
the memes were better.
[X] Doubt
Still miss 2westerneurope4u
A lot of them are either bots or are working for some clickbait farm. You will eventually come to realize that you need to block the worse offenders.
