When I joined Lemmy during the Reddit exodus it felt like a new breeze and very positive. It feels like this has changed, posts and comments are more negative. Lots of complaints, even positive news posts receive a lot of negative comments. I am always trying to see the positive in things. Just doesn’t feel fun anymore. Perhaps it’s just me though.

Also still mainly see technical posts, lots of Windows/MS bashing. I’d like to see more communities about non technical things. Perhaps I haven’t discovered them.

  • SokathHisEyesOpenEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I started using Sync for Lemmy, even though I don’t like their privacy policy, just so I can block entire instances. I’m also really liberal with the block community options. I’ve got most of the political communities blocked, but it’s surprising how many there are, so I still come across them. I literally just blocked a leopards ate my face community right before reading your response, since the entire premise of the community is political schadenfreude. I’ve also blocked a bunch of communities that are overall negative. I’m a hair away from blocking the technology community since it’s almost all privacy invasion reports, which really gets my blood boiling. I’m not even sure if all that blocking has helped to be honest with you. I subscribed to like 60 different communities for subjects that interest me and the only one that is active is a Star Trek Memes one, so I spend a lot of time in the Everything community and it’s still pretty negative despite my efforts. I’m at a crossroads right now where I’m thinking about just leaving, or changing the way I interact with the site, because I think it is making me overall less happy.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      A lot of the for lemmy apps allow instance blocking, like summit for lemmy. No ads either and a lot of them are open sourced.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing!

      I’m at a crossroads right now where I’m thinking about just leaving, or changing the way I interact with the site, because I think it is making me overall less happy.

      That was my feeling yesterday as well. But, today, I posted on food@beehaw and had some nice discussions. Think you just have to be mindful of which posts you are participating in. I’m avoiding going to /all, and if I find a community I’m subscribed to too negative, I just unsubscribe.

      But it’s annoying if that means, like for you, that your subscribed feed is not active. Well, gives you time for other things :) Personally, I wouldn’t leave Lemmy yet. I’ve learned some very cool things here, and had some very good discussions.