I don't know how some people stay on [big social media] while constantly hating being on [big social media].
Yet you doomscroll!
And there's plenty of ragebait.
Social websites are basically urinal stalls that people graffiti on.
In what fucking dream world isn't fediverse filled with ragebait?
The enraged see all posts that disagree with them as "rage bait".
Rage against the dying of the light, sweet prince
I don't see any rage bait on Lemmy..
I've seen it from that abc account
The comic leaves out the whole "joining the right server and communities for you" part. If nobody tells you before joining, then you see a bunch of horrible stuff. If someone does tell you before joining, then it's a daunting prospect.
You'll also need to block a bunch of people since individual instance blocks don't block the people from the instances.
Which really ought to be a feature, IMO. And/or filter lists to which one could subscribe.
And if you just go to the "right server and communities" you get isolated in echo chambers.
Damned if you do...
Echo chamber is the new cancel culture. More often than not, someone thinks we've never heard their very common and shitty opinion.
We can have civil arguments, without trolling.
You: I don't want to see Rage Bait and stupid engagement bait shit on Lemmy!
Also you: I don't want to isolate myself to only content I want to see!
You: [ragebait]
Also you: [stupid engagement bait shit]
You don't know what any of those terms mean, do you?
Do you have a septum piercing?
Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.
Also, why is the guy who quit all social media "doom scrolling"? Doomscrolling what? An RSS feed?
Good for him, tbh.
Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.
Can you explain? Do you mean up/downvotes?
To be fair, I see a bit of ragebait occasionally on the fediverse too.
I've also seen a lot of smaller communities bend their own rules presumably for the sake of engagement as well. No ads is nice though and having real people around is also wonderful.
"Anyway it's the immigrants' fault."
I didn't do anything special to my feed, but out of the bat it's so much more depressing, rage inducing, and sensational. And the comments are way more...polarizing so to speak. There is more genuine people here than on Reddit, but every time I scroll here I stop because my heartbeat goes up. If Reddit is 50% bots doing ads and 40% ragebait, here all the ads are replaced by pure concentrated ragebait.
Election Cycle upcoming in USA, and cause USA are so damn loud all the damn time, it ends up so the world hears about it
Block all the politics, news, and regional communities you see. It really helps a lot. I mostly see comics, memes and Star Trek jokes now.
Iβm sick of all this Internet, causing all these problems
Fuck this internet thing
I'm sick of this shit.
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