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WITH FIRE!!!
Sorry… I know that is not the answer you were looking for, but it felt right, and sometimes you just have to go where your heart leads you.
Change the sorting algorithms?
I’m not sure of the details, but the default “Hot” algorithm for Lemmy surfaces ragebait from popular subs first, while Scaled or New Comments are way more wholesome.
This should be an ongoing experiment, but I think “Hot” or whatever is default should boost quiet communities more.
I just started using scaled. Its nice.
Please post more wholesome content
I tried some magic mushrooms the other day, has ab absolute horrible trip and decided to just watch something wholesome and funny.
I went to Lemmy
That did not go over well, all my content was cynical, sad, sarcastic… It made me feel even worse. I went on to try and watch some simply laugh Comedy, couldn’t find friends anywhere, tried to find it on YouTube, big mistake… Long story short, it was the longest night of my life and I’ll bever ever try that shit again but for heavens sake, please try posting more actual positive and or funny content!
Any subs anyone could recommend for that?
If you want something great for being funny wholesome and weird while tripping I can’t recommend a sub but I always really like this Jacob Wysocki video and just sketch comedy channels like Door Monster and Chris and Jack, etc…
Otherwise on here I like the comic communities. They have been pretty good.
“If you can’t say something nice…”
Shouldn’t be regulated, but that’s my advice for improving discourse and awareness.
Tax the rich out of existence and watch how the quality of life goes up everywhere and everything starts being good again.
Idk, I think the fediverse is sufficiently positive. I also think society is going through a wealth inequality period common with most of history, and we’re either going to correct it or continue to suffer on a global scale. I don’t think I want to be a part of any aggregation site that isn’t tuned into the real world.
Completely agree.
There seems to be this concept that humans do their best when under pressure and I really think that is wrong, heck science literally agrees with me and so does history.
When people are uncomfortable and struggling they really just suck. Short fuse, anxiety, and uncreative. But during extremely peaceful and well funded times people prosper and contribute better. Look at how much we got out of the post world war 2 era of just funding and building more that gave us new genres of music and art and it’s from free time and comfort that people can get creative. Humans love to be lazy but get bored quick. It’s the center of all our innovation.
So, I agree that a better world would give us better everything but not really actionable advice for the moment in here though right?
I mean, I don’t know what actionable advice looks like if I’m being honest. I haven’t exactly connected the dots between wanting something political and achieving something political.
So I’d say that starting with raising awareness about root causes, building a community with an expectation of that awareness, and then manifesting meaningful action when an opportunity presents itself is likely as actionable as I can get. I think the benefit of doing this here on Lemmy is that it will make things more positive. We don’t have to have childish comments defending the rich and make the space more negative if we have a robust resource that explains the position. Maybe it’s short sighted of me, but a chunk of the negative articles and daily happenings can be chalked up to “rich people attempt distraction by talking about thing that doesn’t effect you or matter really much at all”. I think a community that posted those with a consistent title of “DISTRACTION - (news of the day)” would go a long way in allowing actual news to elevate itself. Because this is a root issue to a global problem, I think this awareness could effect nearly every community on Lemmy so why not talk about this more, educate yourself and your peers, and the more people who are up to speed the less time you have to spend talking about it and the more likely it gets fixed.
Idk, it’s not exactly “do X and get Y more positive posts” but it’s the kind of advice I think leads some percentage of people to start a union and then get parental leave and overtime protection. Like it’s not exactly sexy work, and it’s slow and not fun, but it’s the best I’ve got. I need to educate myself more on how to make actual political change in my local area (let alone online).
Yeah it’s fine to not have the answers. Honestly I don’t think there are any just actions you can take and consequences to figure out after.
I do agree we could probably do more to separate distracting news from useful news since there is a lot of it. And I think that’s a pretty interesting suggestion. And I think that kind of creative consideration is exactly what we need to make actions that we think might work, since it’s smaller than the huge goal all at once.
Hahaha, right.
As if being rich is why we’re all assholes at one time or another.
Its the way of humanity, all of us have a different experience, all of us are struggling in our own ways (though most of it is a common experience).
If I had indigestion right now, my response may have been more snarly, but I don’t, so this is what you get. Wait ten minutes, and I could be the ass in this conversation.
Are you claiming better living standards for everyone wouldn’t reduce people’s aggression, apathy, or lack of energy? I’m just trying to understand what your point is, because it seems immature putting it kindly.
People having money for good education, good healthcare, good public transit, time for community building, for hobbies, for art logically, obviously, and experimentally reduce trauma - crime - sadness. I mean you name it, money helps people in every statistic (up to a point). That seems fuckin obvious and not worth debating if someone disagreed.
All I did was append the notion that right now most people are losing purchasing power, losing quality of living, compared to just a few generations ago, because of wealth inequality. It’s why we can’t buy houses, it’s why there’s so much debt, it’s why we can’t seem to make effective change at the rate at which it’s needed. Tax the rich out of existence such that money remains in the hands of the working class and we’d all start to see improvements along every metric we care about.
If Lemmy seems negative, it’s because the world is in a negative zeitgeist right now due to the negative happenings. If one would want to make Lemmy positive, just like every where else in their life, they would need to address the root cause which I’m suggesting is wealth inequality.
I also further express that artificially creating a positive space on a site who’s purpose is Link aggregation seems less useful to me than one that keeps me informed about the various topics I like - including the positive and negative.
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Try not to fall into the trap of groupthink. The “reddit hive mind” was one of the worst things about our predecessor, and it seems to have followed us here.
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Understand that humans are not, and never will be, perfect. Endless purity tests do not accomplish anything other than turning away newcomers.
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For the love of God, pick up a hobby. My feed on any given day is 99.8% US politics and activism. I’m not saying that these things aren’t important, but it gets exhausting when it’s the only thing people want to discuss.
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Mandatory fursona creation required upon account activation.
I’m not a furry because I don’t have a fursona. To have a fursona I’d have to choose one of my oc’s to elevate above the rest.
I’ve noticed that people seem to agree with the person they “think” is winning the argument and turns it into a game of butting heads, when I don’t think that is how social media should be treated anyways.
The whole point is people don’t know what you do and these spaces are supposed to be for coming together and communicating in a digital space instead of a physical space and then you share. But because it’s all practically to an audience people treat the conversation like a gladiator combat where someone needs to speak more confidently and belittle the other as to show their strength and get the upvotes. Or their humor to show they don’t care and are more funny than the other. It’s so competitive.
Honestly the best interactions come from the people who don’t use the platform as much and just talk like a person asking what other people think and responding reasonably. No assumptions of using the platform as a stage, no attempts to “win”, shouldn’t even be thinking you will get the other person to agree with you just that you both leave with more than what you came in with.
And that needs to be especially true for the fact that new younger people will come in and having no expectations of what they should already know or be but welcoming them in anyways is how it will have to continue.ban Nazi’s and defederate from fascist instances.
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I know you’re trolling but I’m vicious like this.
*.ml
db.zero
programming.dev
sh.it.just.works
I have ran into more fascist supporting shit heels from those instances than anywhere else.
seriously? I’d expect .ml (and hexbear, but you didn’t mention that one), but the others have been quite excellent in my experience.
programming.dev, the instance known for ultranationalism, authoritarianism, belief in a natural social hierarchy, hate for communism and socialism
Change the world to be less hostile toward ordinary people. Improve general conditions and decrease inequality. I know it’s a tall order, but it’s a pretty big step toward people being less angry, aggrieved, and sullen.
More attainable, and not applicable to everyone (but works on me), more pics of kittens and puppies and other cute critters. Sorry that I don’t have a more actionable philosophical suggestion.
Fix the world it exists in.
“To make a cup of coffee, you must first invent the universe.”
Implement a way for users to subscribe to an updating community/user blocklist. That way new users can get rid of all the crazies and block all the ml instances.
Let’s talk about politics a whole hell of a lot less. Yes, things are awful and insane, but there is good stuff to discuss.
There’s two subreddits I really miss: AskScience and AskHistorians. I was a regular and flaired contributor to AskScience, but its super helpful to generate a response when there’s a good question. It would feel weird opining on a random science topic that I come up with. And I loved the well sourced AskHistorians posts. When I do see a c/AskHistorian post on Lemmy the responses are very low effort
Yup, that sub has high standard. You basically have to write in Chicago style. (academic standard for writing in history) I wanted to contribute one time but didn’t want to spend hours writing.
