i dont think so but what do you think

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    No. This place is the land of reddit regurgitation. Reddit opinions, reddit reposts, reddit attitude. Nothing really worth looking at for more than 5 minutes distraction at a time.

    • hal_baleigh@piefed.socialEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Hey on some days I can get up to 10 minutes worth of content.

      /joke

      I’m fine with the low amount of content on here, it kinda puts a natural timer on things, when I get check new posts for like 5 or 10 minutes and just move on with my life.

    • Adniem@thelemmy.clubOP
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      8 days ago

      maybe because i have used lemmy for 3 hours (from a screen time extension thing on firefox) yesterday

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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    8 days ago

    it is, but its your own fault for change. Its in your own control if you want to see communities that have stuff that makes you unhappy.

  • ieightpi@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    And people thought the algorithms on private social networks were to blame. Nah people are just miserable in general and can’t seem to get outside and find some positivitly.

    Because believe it or not, it’s out there.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
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      8 days ago

      yeah, it’s pretty chill if you block 90% of the content and only focus on the 10% of communities that about something other than how oppressed and doomed they are.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I am suspicious that there is a disproportionately-high-to-society-at-large ratio of people who have clinical depression on here.

        I’ve never run into as many people in any group, in real life or in online communities, who show up and persistently take bleak outlooks on damned near everything. It’s not just “the glass is half empty”, but “the glass is half empty and probably what water is there is contaminated and it’s going to dry up and if I drink it I’ll probably choke to death and…”

        • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I live in a city full of wealthy progressive liberals who talk like that non stop. Everything is awful all the time and if you don’t agree you’re awful too. if you point out annoying good happening they will tell you how awful it is or it’s colonialism or imperialism.

          their second favorite topic is what smart geniuses they are and how everyone else should be like them. and nobody else has had a harder or more difficult life than than did, because their parents only made 500K a year! and now they only make 200K a year! they are living in poverty!!

          i have lived here 20 years and 10 years ago it wasn’t like this… because it was more diverse and people were not so self absorbed.

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            8 days ago

            I can’t speak as to all areas, but I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is pretty wealthy and progressive, and if anything, I’d call people in the area generally upbeat relative to people I’ve run into elsewhere. Certainly nothing like the kind of “everything is awful or probably will be, doom doom doom” stuff that I’d say I see a disproportionate level of on the Threadiverse.

            I have wondered before whether maybe it’s correlation with some of the userbase.

            • I’d say that there are probably more furries on here than I run into elsewhere, but I don’t really notice the pawb.social home instance being attached to downbeat comments.

            • Ditto for Linux users, but I’ve been on a lot of Linux-oriented online forums, and that doesn’t normally seem to be a particularly depressed or negative crowd elsewhere.

            • The Threadiverse is more European than most groups I’ve run into, and maybe I could buy some correlation there—there is correlation between less sunlight and depression, and Europe is home to the world’s biggest concentration of people who get less sunlight—but I’m confident that the continent as a whole can’t be this negative. I also spent a lot of time on /r/Europe prior to moving to the Threadiverse, and it was nothing like this.

            • There’s a higher concentration of far-left users than anywhere else I’ve been. Maybe I could buy that. Like, if your life is heavily-focused on wanting The Revolution to come and private industry dissolved and all that, okay, the world, which isn’t doing that, is maybe a disappointing place to be in.

            • I’m pretty sure that there’s a higher concentration of transexual users than on any other group that I’ve spent a lot of time around. Maybe if you figure that a disproportionately high percentage of trans people are unhappy with their body, that could really be weighing on people, making them unhappy. Or maybe from medication…hormones can affect mood, and maybe hormone replacement treatment can cause negative moods?

              searches

              It sounds like maybe HRT can be a factor in depression: https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/9g68zm/is_depression_a_possible_side_effect_of_hrt/

            EDIT: I have seen articles that show correlation between social media use in general and depression, and obviously everyone here is a social media user. Maybe that could explain some difference between real-world groups, but that doesn’t explain the discrepancy with the many other online forums I’ve been on.

            • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
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              7 days ago

              The issue is insular identity groups tend to be assholes towards anyone who isn’t like them. The have a circle the wagons mentality, and develop outsized hostility towards people outside the group.

              When you are in a more diverse space, people don’t get this luxury as much. They have to moderate their attitude and behaviour because they can’t just dismiss and demonize everyone who isn’t like them. As a group becomes more insular, this starts to erode and self-selection happens where moderate folks don’t want to be around the miserable angry identity focused people. Eventually a tipping point hits and the diverse space becomes highly insular and ever it’s members more extreme and becomes totally hostile to diversity.

              That’s a well-documented psychological/anthropological thing in real world and online communities. And it’s happening in a lot of places, especially those that were previously bastions of diversity and inclusion, like college campuses and online communities.

              And SF suffers from the same issue as where I live, the population is very insular in terms of demographics and identity. You can’t live here anymore unless you make like 100K+ a year, which severely restricts the types of people who can live here to very similar demographics.

            • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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              7 days ago

              The way I see it is if you started using lemmy you’re probably either a(n)

              • Open source purist: thus, extremely negative about anything proprietary.
              • Extremely political (in large part ChapoTrapHouse refugees), so extremely negative about anything seen as capitalist or reactionary.
              • Terminally online: just generally either mentally ill (cause or consequence) or brainrotted, which makes you more negative naturally.

              I think this explains most of the negativity I’ve seen.

  • Sir. Haxalot@nord.pubEnglish
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    8 days ago

    As everyone else in the thread, yes, but at least it’s a bit more limited… as in, you’ll run out of content quicker.

    I think the Fediverse shows that it’s not only algorithms that push sooner content; the core issue is humans. We’re a lot more likely to share and like/upvote something that upsets, and some days I think that is very noticeable on here…