• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Next time someone asks me what Lemmy’s like, I’ll just refer them to this post.

    “And see? That’s my comment down here with the gif.”

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      4 months ago

      Honestly seems dumb to me. The vast majority of lemmy is not like this at all. It all depends on what you subscribe to.

      That there’s always some background radiation of Fedi drama … yea I’d agree with you on that … sad to see TBH. IMO, some just want to create drama and get tribal without actually doing anything positive.

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        4 months ago

        A rant on social issues, a spin on development, and a nonchalant passive-aggressieness… Nah, that’s a lot of Lemmy. If the profile pic was a fursona, that’d be 💋👌

        Hell, just look at these comments lol. You’re in denial or you’ve gotten good at ignoring it.

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          You’re in denial or you’ve gotten good at ignoring it.

          Maybe. I’m plugged into my fair share of Fedi drama around the fediverse I’d say.

          A big difference I suspect is between those who scroll All and those who rely on subscribing.

          Otherwise, I don’t think this is a lemmy thing, it’s a fediverse thing. Even BlueSky. A sad trait amongst people has been exposed by alternative social … people are meaner to open source voluntary devs than big corp extractive owners.

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            I agree very much about Subscribing vs. All.

            I hear about the lemmy.ml drama on Fediverse but my actual experience is no drama and I do not 100% know what is happening.

            I also put my head in the sand and only look at my Subscribed, which includes zero politics or “this company did this awful thing”-style depressing news as I’m oversensitive and too prone to doomscrolling. I stay informed somewhere else, not on the Fediverse where people can put so many understandably upset comments that encourage me to doomscroll. And I’d imagine those types of posts, which I know to be prevalent on Local or All, attract comments from people with strong political views, which is probably part of the lemmy.ml drama. I could probably block all the politics posts with a couple community blocks, but not the miseryposting (understandable, people want to vent or post an on-topic news article, I just cannot handle it personally without doomscrolling more things like it) that attracts “and this problem was caused because of [insert politics here]” replies—so many communities are appropriate places to post news that happens to be sad, or a meme about how much your life sucks.