I feel like all of these are valid concerns to raise and posts to submit. If you’re not interested in the subjects talked about, unsubscribe from the communities or don’t browse in “all”. Apart from that, just brush it off and move on.
Did you create the attached photo? If so, then I disagree with most of your labeling…and call some of it into question as outright denial of reality.
The world cannot be all puppies and unicorns. But, if that’s what you need it to be, there are communities that will serve that purpose and all you need to do is subscribe to those and only browse subscribed.
I’m surprised blocking news communities isn’t something most people are doing. Reddit (and Lemmy) are great for entertainment and specific topics like tech, but terrible at everything else. Start blocking them, you probably won’t regret it much.
On top of that, what did he expect from a FOSS software made by a tankie? Mixed in with a migration from a corporation fucking their shit? Did he think we would praise them? Lol
Uhh, I have to disagree. Hate for corporations isn’t hard coded into Lemmy and neither of us are using an instance moderated by the dev. Lemmy could easily be used by right-wingers
I’m actually fed up with that entire “let’s just ignore everything that’s bad and pretend everything’s fine”/ignorance is bliss/good vibes only approach to using the Internet.
Content warnings for everything nowadays , instead of some trigger warnings for the seriously upsetting shit.
Things aren’t getting better if we keep our eyes closed.
Don’t want to doomscroll? Block or mute what you don’t want to see. We used to call that filter sovereignty when web 2.0 got started and it somehow mutated into “don’t show me anything that might stress me out”.
I don’t like that development and I’m glad Lemmy seems to be rather chill so far.
I’d personally rather see one content warning too many than one too few. You never know who the person on the other end might be going through right now, so a warning for a potentially triggering piece of content is never unnecessary.
Totally agree with you on the rest of your points, though.
Yes, I think content warnings make it easier to have difficult conversations, not harder. People who don’t want to discuss something are not magically going to become open to those discussions because you spring the topic on them without warning. Content warnings save time, and give people a chance to brace themselves before going into what is usually a big fight.
Not the op, but I think I get what they’re getting at. I have been scrolling lemmy a lot this last week and everytime I see something about the climate catastrophe, unions being fucked over, terrible politicians etc I up vote it. These are all important things, and by up voting I feel like I’m čsupporting the cause" and “raising awareness”.
But I do wonder if it’s actually very helpful, for whatever cause, for me, or for lemmy. It makes scrolling lemmy stressful and depressing, which is accurate for how the world is, but it doesn’t really make things better. I feel like I’d rather be reading something interesting or informative that might make the world a better place, whether it’s by actually making real chnage, or just me learning something meaningful.
“Starbucks fucks it’s employees!” “Trump lies about soemthing!” “the world is on fire!” are always going to drive engagement because these things upset us and we want to do a small act to make ourselves feel less powerless. But I’m not sure they’re really doing more than preaching to the choir, and leaving said choir frazzled and distracted.
i mean in your screenshot one is literally a community also existing on reddit. people just recreate their communitys from reddit here and post the same they did on reddit.
if you don’t like it, downvote it. things like this should be solved by yourself and not by codechanges etc… just downvote it if it’s not your taste.
This is not due to subscriptions - the same thing can be seen logged out. Additionally, communities you are not subscribed to show up in the home feed - you would need to block such communities to not see content from them. You could make the argument that one should really just browse communities you’re interested in without viewing the home page, which is fair. However, take technology for example. There are many positive innovations that can be talked about. Instead - Right now, the posts in order, summarized in the same format as my post would be: 1. Corporation bad (ally bank). 2. global warming dystopia (Texas heat) 3. corporation bad (Netflix raising prices) 4. corporation bad (Elon Musk sued) 5. regular post 6. corporation bad (playstation store crap) 7. regular post 8 through 11 is corporation bad and AI dystopia news.
This. That way you’ll only see what you explicitly care about and have joined. You can select the “subscribed” button at the top or make it permanent by changing your profile settings, which means you won’t have to manually select “subscribed” when opening Lemmy.
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