I post to Lemmy a lot and generally try my best to not contribute to the doom and gloom for this reason. I think there's a difference between wanting to stay informed and getting addicted to the outrage/doom posts.
I'm mostly here to joke around with people and nerd out in a handful of niche interest communities.
Yeah, the doomposting is intense on Lemmy. I've taken up a policy of just downvoting any negative posts I see, even if I like the post otherwise, just to tamp down the negativity a bit around here.
The best and worst thing about Lemmy is how niche we are. It keeps out the "mainstream", but unfortunately we're easily inundated by perpetually-online doomers.
Also, I would recommend blocking users moreso than communities. Once you start looking for it, you realize that like 90% of these posts are made by just a few people/bots.
I hide posts when I’m done with them and I swear to god these political and news communities are posting the same things over and over again. I’ve seen the same post more than once.
/all does seem to be devolving into just a shitty news feed of US bullshit. I try and block as much as possible, but it's not perfect. Lemmy needs a way to categorise and filter out stuff like blatant news links. I want memes and discussion, not ads and news.
The worst part is that the articles they post aren't even good. They're bias almost to the point of being bullshit.
lemmy is more US-centric than reddit and twitter combined.
If you came to lemmy to escape the anarchy and chaos that is Trump, you best be turning around.
You're gonna end up with an empty feed real quick 😭
The Political Propaganda machine in the US is now at full steam given how near their Presidential Election is, so we get innundated with "vote X" and "X is great" posts along with "Y is bad" ones.
Advertising has become so abusive that you can't browse anymore without and AdBlocker, and Political Propaganda is just a more manipulative form of advertising, often pushed by people deeply emotional bound to "their club" (funnilly enough, I also avoid Sports stuff, as it suffers from exactly the same problem) hence far more insiduous and aggressive.
Then to make it even worse, this electoral cycle in the US is all about doom-mongering with not a single message of hope or a bright vision for the Future: in other words, everybody is selling Fear, which at least in traditional Advertising is uncommon.
It's gotten bad lately -- both the posts and the news itself. I feel like I need to take a break myself. Irony of this comment also acknowledged.
all of the posts are doom scrolling
That’s not what doom scrolling is dummy
at least if the memes were good. It's just bad man this bad man that or dementia man dementia man that.
For some reason lemmy shitpost suddenly became politics focused
I’m glad that users can enjoy the platform in whichever way each user feels is best.
All with the blaring self-righteousness of - "I lifted a finger once. Nothing happened overnight. Never again."
Cheered on by those actively participating in concern trolling divide-and-conquer political campaign tactics, both from within the country and from halfway across the world in China and goddamned russia.Glad to see I’m not the only one.
Same, I ban all US politic subs as well
You're banned too You're welcome
I don't care about normal politics what annoys me is the Tankies climbing out of the wood work to tell you about the evil evil "west"
It’s kind of unavoidable honestly, and no one should be shocked. Tons of people are finally learning that democracy in the US died years ago. I usually just scroll past or engage in a limited manner. I already have other communities to discuss that stuff and Lemmy is mostly an escape.
Yep, same here. I already have a lot of existential dread about shit I can't do anything about, so why wouldn't I ban them. Hell I have a lot of title words filtered out too
this mf out here becoming a mod on every instance so they can ban politics communities
Funny enough, from some of the replies I get to my posts, some of them relating to us politics, I can only assume that people either don't notice or don't care about what instance I'm connected to.
It's a fun game.... At least, I'm entertained by it.
You have just given me the power to ruin all of lemmy for you in particular. Fool
