Ignacio

I think it’s the admin of mastodon.art the source of almost all the drama. Even the admin of the server where I am had issues with that admin and blocked her.

It’s just an example. I could write another one, but that’s the one that came into my head at that moment, the easiest one for me to be understood.

The main problem I see is that news outlets, people, and link aggregators like Lemmy/Kbin, mainly focus on the negative side instead of the positive said.

For example, focusing on the negative side would be “Climate change is here and we are doomed”. Focusing on the positve side would be “These are the things you can do to alleviate climate change”. Climate change is the main topic in both information sources, but changing the focus means better discussions, less ragebait and doombait, and a healthier environment for all of us.

Linking to news outlets won’t change that, because we all know how they work. But I agree with OP, ragebait doesn’t benefit anyone and only harms our mental health.

Unsubscribing or blocking communities/magazines is something that we can do, but that also prevents us to read other kind of news that are posted on those communities/magazines.

Only if Threads is open source, but it doesn’t seem to be.

Just to add more information or context to your answer, this site exists, so instead of people arguing about “Lemmy sucks on privacy” or “This place is a hell hole for anonymity”, maybe people should rethink about what they’re going to write.

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Among other things, this happened 2 years ago.

Man, these are the funniest days of my life. Everyday is a complete shit show in the dump fire.

The only thing I used reddit for was to lurk, see photos, upvote and read some comments or posts. I was barely active during this couple of years with a new account, after deleting an old one. Sometimes I saw it, and still see it, difficult for me to be active because of karma, some kind of polarization or toxicity, even on safe subreddits.

The good thing is that here, karma is non existent. Yes, you can upvote or downvote posts and comments, but those votes don’t go to you as karma, so you’re not affected. And that really helps neurodivergent people, as it’s my case too (rejection sensitive dysphoria, I think it’s called, one comorbidity of ADHD).

So, yes, fuck Reddit, and I’ll stay here as long as it lasts.

According to another user on that reddit post, the dev is raising funds for a new web based on reddit, called Tildes.net.