My mental state using reddit vs lemmy.
Listen, I like lemmy, but it is turbo-doomer compared to Reddit. I think one of the biggest differences is that the smaller reddit communities that I'd use to escape the doomer shit like /r/furry_irl or /r/polandball just don't really exist here.
Same here. I generally prefer Lemmy at this point but I absolutely hate how everything is politics on here. Even the meme communities are half the time just shitty talking points in a meme template.
So much negativity all the time and all of it is essentially useless because virtually everyone on Lemmy is at least progressive already. So the comments are just a bunch of people agreeing with each other how terrible everything is.
It’s really exhausting.
Yeah honestly i wish places not flooded with politics or linux jokes, saying this as a linux usef
You're just experiencing the eternal cycle of social media, life, death and rebirth. any new social media will be predominantly, progressives and liberals. This steady state won't last for long because eventually right-wingers and your mother's friends will join in thus reducing the value of this new media to zero. by then, progressives such as yourself may have found an entirely new social media center to complain about.
also there's no escaping /c/lemmyshitpost and their jemes
There's a sweet spot between concentration and dilution. I hope lemmy can self regulate that ratio.
Then make the community, there are plenty of people interested.
I refuse to believe there's no adequate furry community on the fediverse.
Or the whole Internet! Cough FA
You must have NSFW filters on.
Agreed. Lemmy seems to be Linux, Star Trek, politics, and a dash of shitpost.
I can handle all of it except the constant feed of politics. It's a US election year so that probably accounts for a lot of it.
That and the ongoing wars, have propaganda armies working every social site on the Internet.
It's the opposite for me, actually. I use Lemmy far less than I ever used Reddit, so its easier to actually not feel so addicted.
The best way to escape the doomer shit like you did on Reddit is to create equivalent Lemmy communities. For example, I personally wanted to see more Bingus memes on Lemmy, so I created !bingus@lemmy.ml so that the Fediverse could be graced with the presence of Bingus.
If you liked r/furry_irl and r/polandball on Reddit, and want to see that kind of stuff on Lemmy, all you gotta do is hit that little "create community" button and replicate all your favorite escapes from political nonsense and Linux memes (tho I must admit Linux memes are really cool).
Yeah, the Lemmy communities you create may not get as big as their Reddit counterparts, but that's just kinda how it works around here.
Yeah, but then I'd have to be a moderator and I just don't really have the energy or dedication for that. Especially if I wanted to run a polandball community on par with reddit's. They had some hardcore rules.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !bingus@lemmy.ml
I do hope in time more niche communities will pop up. As long as people stay active, the less lazy (or those with more free time) will make the little communities we miss.
One is fitting into a mold, trapped by social norms the other one is free. I find this MEME to be quiet the complement.
You should have probably mirrored the image or positioned the speech bubbles better.
It’s actually pretty good feedback, I’ll do something like that next time.
I'm guessing the original of this was anti-suffragette propaganda? I love that shit. It was always "if women can vote, they'll behave as badly as men".
That’s the most patronizing bullshit I have ever heard. It would have driven me mad.
Yep! Welcome to the unfiltered real internet.... (and I'm saying that as a positive thing).
I always thought it would be the mods who would cause reddit to fall. I never thought it would be this way though
I'm in this meme and I love it.
I think a lot of this joke refers to the Roman god Mars, and the Roman Goddess Venus, more than it does the planetary bodies. Roman and Greek mythology both have a lot of gender fuckery, so I think it’s pretty appropriate.
That bing AI thing says there’s somewhere around 65 to 70 named Roman deities, so I’m gonna make a call and say that there are probably 69 genders.
