Recently joined the wider Lemmy community (coming from kbin.social, o7). I like it, but the constant negativity and fear mongering/bait in large communities keeps me from engaging more. I just kind of wish there were more relaxed communities like how niche subreddits can be. I’ve seen a lot more arguments here than the kbin-specific communities or even Reddit honestly.
I’m going to continue using Lemmy at least for now, but I just hope this place can move past the negativity that plagues major social media platforms already. I get everybody has their views, but is it a requirement to share them every comment/post? It’s all jokes and no seriousness on Reddit to all seriousness here. Not very enjoyable. Feels like a lot of the users who created cool niche communities after the Reddit exodus got driven away by the negativity and frivolous downvoting.
Thank you. I feel many are falling in the same trap as the actual media: they want engagement in their community, and the stuff that riles people up does that and gets them coming back. My question is if that is what we want growing here?
I’d rather this just be a place to chill and have fun, but stay up to date on news too. I don’t know why people want to argue with the same dozen people here when they could antagonize many more people at Reddit if that’s their thing.
I try to post nothing but positive stuff, but if I look around one day and don’t enjoy anything else around me here, why would I stay?
A bit of a rant here.
Recently joined the wider Lemmy community (coming from kbin.social, o7). I like it, but the constant negativity and fear mongering/bait in large communities keeps me from engaging more. I just kind of wish there were more relaxed communities like how niche subreddits can be. I’ve seen a lot more arguments here than the kbin-specific communities or even Reddit honestly.
I’m going to continue using Lemmy at least for now, but I just hope this place can move past the negativity that plagues major social media platforms already. I get everybody has their views, but is it a requirement to share them every comment/post? It’s all jokes and no seriousness on Reddit to all seriousness here. Not very enjoyable. Feels like a lot of the users who created cool niche communities after the Reddit exodus got driven away by the negativity and frivolous downvoting.
Thank you. I feel many are falling in the same trap as the actual media: they want engagement in their community, and the stuff that riles people up does that and gets them coming back. My question is if that is what we want growing here?
I’d rather this just be a place to chill and have fun, but stay up to date on news too. I don’t know why people want to argue with the same dozen people here when they could antagonize many more people at Reddit if that’s their thing.
I try to post nothing but positive stuff, but if I look around one day and don’t enjoy anything else around me here, why would I stay?