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Is it just me or has Lemmy become more negative and less fun? (self.offtopic)

submitted 1 year ago by sylverstream to c/offtopic

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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.

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[–] Dave 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't disagree. There are definitely a lot of negative posts and attitudes, though in the early days there was lots of negativity towards reddit. But perhaps more optimism about Lemmy. Recent ... events ... may have hurt that optimism.

I do still come across nice spots pretty regularly, though. Perhaps look at some Beehaw communities, which is an instance focused on people being friendly to each other. It's actually how I got started on Lemmy. (Not quite true, I started on lemmy.ml a couple of years ago, but it wasn't for me. Then earlier this year joined beehaw and it inspired me to start my own instance).

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.

What kinds of things are you interested in? I'm keen for some good non-technical/non-news communities too but I don't know where to start 😆. Maybe we can pick something and make an effort to make the community more active?

[–] sylverstream 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Will have a look around Beehaw.

Some non technical topics I'm interested in are ice cream making and fitness. Also I like to read uplifting news, there is a community, but the comments are predominantly negative so I've unsubscribed.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not much of a fitness person, but in the past have done ice cream making. Is there a community for that somewhere? Though, it doesn't seem like something that two people could contribute a lot to. I'm not sure how much there is to say about ice cream making, if you don't have people coming looking for help. In fact, the !food@beehaw.org might be a suitable place to start discussions about ice cream making?

For the Beehaw communities, you can see their community list here. If you have the Instance Assistant browser addon, it makes it easy to open the community on lemmy.nz for subscribing.

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I mainly browse on mobile, on the liftoff app.

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for considering starting a community. Yes, think it's better to start discussion in existing communities.