Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company do. And when you go in global it’s “Amercan Politics” “Elon Musk Bad” “Stealing data”, “our world ending”
Recently my brother and I where bored, and I went to show him we moved to lemmy, and said we had memes and all the stuff here. And looking at top memes, it was “complaining about big tech”, and “complaining on windows”.
And, I miss a bit all I had on Reddit not going to lie.
So is there any active community with some positive things anywhere you’d recommend. I just feel like I’m in a bad angry environment.
I’ve got:
Edit: Wow! If you come after, I’d truly, truly invite you to look around in the comments, people here truly changed the way I see Lemmy, its way different now! Way better!
I’m guessing it has to do with our early-adopter status still. Gotta remember, we’re still the scrappy little underdog that only the weirdos know about. We are all weirdos, you, me, everyone else. Being here is sufficient to make that true. Over time that’ll change, but for now we’re just too unknown still.
So, what you have here is a lot of idealists that disapprove of reddit, a lot of people that got banned from reddit and can’t go back, and a lot of tech bros and excited young people in general.
You can probably see how these different demographics can kinda come together to create what we see around us here, while a lot of the more “normie” content is still mostly back where we came from. (for us reddit refugees anyway)
That said, you can find a small handful of support group communities for things like alcoholics, and the food and cat subs tend to be fairly active and not so much of a constant clickbait downer. The various AskWhatever subs aren’t bad either, though activity is still very light.
We’re still in the very early stages though, a phase that’ll probably last another year or two. Give us time, we don’t even have our software at full functionality yet.
I just want some reasonable and active communities. Those “wholesome” based communities often end up feeling really fake.
Yeah, forced wholesomeness can be exhausting too. I just want normal convo where people aren’t cramming their doom shit down your throat.
I replied to an ask lemmy post about how I stay positive with things going to shit, so I said how and people literally were trying to drag me down into doom. Like: “how dare you think this way, this is why you’re wrong and should be feeling more negative.”
Yeah, for most people it’s “God it’s terrible out here. I’d like to do things that make me feel better.” And some folks hear that and go, “yeah you’re SUPPOSED to feel bad because the world is bad and you should actually be MORE angry and upset so that you’ll join my political project.”
Which, like, has some truth to it. Capitalism is bad, true enough.
But if someone is just looking for connection, entertainment, and some good times to carry us through the bad… probably not the best time to recruit them into a political cause. Well, you could, if your political project has a big component of joy to it.
But I get it. I also get burned out just trying to stay informed. And maybe I just wanna talk about the new jazz album I found yesterday (black classical music by Yussuf Dayes) or the new game I’m stoked about (Sea of Stars). Good art would exist under any political system, after all!
I really agree. I want to like Lemmy, I really do, but every post is doom filled negativity. It’s like a big negativity circlejerk where people are only ever posting about stuff they hate, like Elon and Twitter/X and Chrome and capitalism. There is very little content that actually celebrates something. Perhaps this is the issue with social media in general, as that has been the vibe I’ve gotten from Twitter and why I’ve never really been much of a user of it. There is definitely a similar thing on Reddit but Reddit is large enough that you can find pockets (usually smaller niche communities) that are more filled with positivity. But maybe Lemmy doesn’t have enough of a critical mass to foster those sorts of communities yet.
What happened to Lemmy? In June people were saying it was all positive and better than Reddit…
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As a 40 something, I tend to find memes tedious, boring, and unoriginal. Like, to the extent that I actively block every meme community that pops up on my feed.
Except Risa. It’s my favorite community on Lemmy and makes me laugh multiple times per day.
I’ve peaked into it, sadly I didn’t get on the Trek community when I was young. My mom bought a huge amount of DVDs of them but told us it was not for me as I was too young to watch with her. I’ve only seen the movies
All of my subscribed lemmy communities have no new content.
Posted from an account that has created zero threads.
No one is obliged to post new content but an account that does not complaining about a lack of new content comes off as very hypocritical.
Why is no one entertaining me?
