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?

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    No, i didn’t notice that (well, except for this post and the negative post before). Maybe we subscribed to different stuff. Or i need to see more examples of such posts/comments.

  • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I blocked all news communities and started posted some more light hearted things such as comic strips or pictures.

  • bh11235@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    These sorts of vague sentiments, “why is the news full of negativity? And have you noticed common sense is very far from common?” are always popular – right up until one is forced to put a finer point on what popular opinions exactly need to lose support because they lack common sense, and which ongoing crisis exactly needs to have less media exposure so as to increase the ambient positivity

  • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I am noticing your post, but I file it as part of the “anecdotal generalizations” trend

  • jocanib@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    We’re in the middle of a global fascist spasm. If you want to stick your fingers in your ears and pretend it’s not happening, I think Threads is trying to be that place.

    • WhatASave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      There’s a difference between sticking your fingers in your ears and just wanted to go on an app for fun and having it turned into a negative space.

      • jocanib@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        And there’s a difference between demanding everyone else post how you want them to and going somewhere people are already posting how you want them to.

        You have plenty of options. You don’t need to clutter this place up with whining. Post the sort of stuff you want to see or go somewhere people are already doing that.

        • WhatASave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I did post what I want to see. A reasonable take about not everything needing to be doomer central, I’m not denying negative things happening…