It might feel pretty dire, but all of this information is critical to understanding and empathizing with the people you might meet in your own society. You can opt out of forums (and should if it's causing you distress). I wouldn't suffer a buffer from the negative information if it meant a lack of information in general.
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I think it reflects the point where we are as a society. Everything is crappy and we all come here to vent.
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How do I defederate from posts complaining about lemmy.ml admins being tankies? Hasn't the instance required manual signup approval for the whole last year? Complaints about it being a flagship instance and the resulting bad look for the platform are total non-sequitur. The problem is absolutely, totally, without caveat, solved by lemmy's blocking functionality. If you don't like that they created popular communities, tough titties. At the core of the issue is that these complaints are pushing a decentralized platform to conform to their worldview. That just isn't how it works.
/rant
Have you tried unplugging capitalism, and then not plugging it back in?
Yes. This place is a dumpster fire. I actually started using Reddit again. I was super interested in moving from Reddit but the power mod issues combined with the extremist political folks here have absolutely scared away any average user.
That then creates a content problem. So now you just have bots posting news all day. And that news gets reposted to not only subs, but now subs within instances too, so you get 18 mentions of the save exact doomer news.
Edit: Jesus Christ, the answers in this thread....
The world isn't burning unless you're on a border with Russia.
I've had similar feelings about going back to reddit. The additional issue with the negativity and extremist political views is that I don't feel like recommending this place to any of the people I know. I can't imagine any normal person enjoying being here.
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this happened after the redditors joined... well I suggest the OG lemmy.ml communites, much better
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Does no one see the irony of a negative post complaining about negativity?
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