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Are you noticing the growing negativity on here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Octane@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve been enjoying the app and the community quite a bunch! However I do notice that the feed is starting to fill up with lots of negative sentiment.

The technology feed is 40% bad news, the news communities are filled with doom scroll stories and the localized communities are also complaining a lot. Some politics get added to the mix.

Lately I’ve noticed that I feel more negative about the world after a Lemmy visit.

Anyone else noticing that?

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[–] whenever8186 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What community are you missing?

[–] whenever8186 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

For me the biggest one was homebrewing community. It is fortunately thriving here.

I miss the madman's from r/prisonhooch but it will pop up sooner or later somewhere.