I don't know how some people stay on [big social media] while constantly hating being on [big social media].
Yet you doomscroll!
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And there's plenty of ragebait.
In what fucking dream world isn't fediverse filled with ragebait?
The enraged see all posts that disagree with them as "rage bait".
Rage against the dying of the light, sweet prince
I don't see any rage bait on Lemmy..
I've seen it from that abc account
That's because your too dumb
That's because your too dumb
The irony from this comment cannot be described.
The comic leaves out the whole "joining the right server and communities for you" part. If nobody tells you before joining, then you see a bunch of horrible stuff. If someone does tell you before joining, then it's a daunting prospect.
You'll also need to block a bunch of people since individual instance blocks don't block the people from the instances.
Which really ought to be a feature, IMO. And/or filter lists to which one could subscribe.
And if you just go to the "right server and communities" you get isolated in echo chambers.
Damned if you do...
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Corporate control and toxic trolling are completely unrelated problems.
In fact, corporate control used to be one of the primary ways to REDUCE toxic trolling before all the tech platforms went mask off when they realized the political levers are now in the hands of those very trolls.
It's a problem inherent in humanity. The only way to get rid of trolling, self-promotion, and toxicity is to get off the internet altogether.
dude for real. I have a friend that constantly posts twitter memes to a group chat im in. I'm like "legitimately, how do you tolerate that platform still". They just say they like the memes.
Doom scrolls billionaire social media sites, whilst refusing the fediverse.
Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.
Also, why is the guy who quit all social media "doom scrolling"? Doomscrolling what? An RSS feed?
Good for him, tbh.
Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.
Can you explain? Do you mean up/downvotes?
Social websites are basically urinal stalls that people graffiti on.
To be fair, I see a bit of ragebait occasionally on the fediverse too.
I've also seen a lot of smaller communities bend their own rules presumably for the sake of engagement as well. No ads is nice though and having real people around is also wonderful.
I didn't do anything special to my feed, but out of the bat it's so much more depressing, rage inducing, and sensational. And the comments are way more...polarizing so to speak. There is more genuine people here than on Reddit, but every time I scroll here I stop because my heartbeat goes up. If Reddit is 50% bots doing ads and 40% ragebait, here all the ads are replaced by pure concentrated ragebait.
Election Cycle upcoming in USA, and cause USA are so damn loud all the damn time, it ends up so the world hears about it
Yeah, now it's especially bad
Block all the politics, news, and regional communities you see. It really helps a lot. I mostly see comics, memes and Star Trek jokes now.
I have another account here where I tried to do that, and my feed consisted of three posts a day, two of which are comics reposted from reddit.
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