
Is that supposed to be some grand statement? Yeah, I enjoy occasionally posting on stuff like this - never said otherwise.
Is that supposed to be some grand statement? Yeah, I enjoy occasionally posting on stuff like this - never said otherwise.
If someone is engaging in a certain kind of content, I would argue that’s the content they want to see. It might not be what they enjoy seeing, or what’s good for them, but you can’t seek out right wing content and then tell me you don’t want to see right wing content. At some point, there has to be a level of personal liability here.
I mean, it’s not like social media doomerism is some mandatory thing. The internet shows us what we want to see - if someone wants to spend their whole life reading about every possible bad thing in the world, that’s on them.
As with most doomer posts, 2/3 of that is just a problem of being addicted to social media - not necessarily a problem with the era itself.
Traditionally, no. Under this new umbrella term, anything can count if you squint your eyes right.
Sorry to go on a well-trodden tangent, but it really is unfortunate how diluted the term “roguelike” has become.
Yeah, the doomposting is intense on Lemmy. I’ve taken up a policy of just downvoting any negative posts I see, even if I like the post otherwise, just to tamp down the negativity a bit around here.
The best and worst thing about Lemmy is how niche we are. It keeps out the “mainstream”, but unfortunately we’re easily inundated by perpetually-online doomers.
Also, I would recommend blocking users moreso than communities. Once you start looking for it, you realize that like 90% of these posts are made by just a few people/bots.
I don’t do this very often, but when you see Garfield sucking on John’s toes… how do you not?
This right here. Volunteering and helping others has helped a ton with addressing my depression and nihilism.
Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear “Divide & Conquer” attempt.
I’m lucky to not have many meetings in my current dev job, but I get the same effect from having a dozen people a day asking for “quick” fixes for various bugs that are conveniently always more urgent than whatever big task I’m in the middle of.
Usually when a community bans you it means they don’t want you to be there. Could try going somewhere else?
Could probably also appeal, but personally if I get banned somewhere I just accept it and move on. Better for the ol’ mental health.
Seems like OP is not familiar with fae mythology.
Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
Ngl I checked. That would be a funny Easter egg.
Give it to someone that needs it.
Always in favour of healthy competition.
Phew okay. In that case, I do agree that a hyper-aggressive species could be the Filter, though it’s worth noting that our radio signals have actually reached further than our furthest probe, so I would go off that when doing round-trip destruction calculations. I love Mass Effect’s take on this idea (though I haven’t played 3).
As for why I asked women: Mostly because I thought the non-sequitur was funny.
No offense intended, but do you identify as male? I can’t even be having this conversation if you do.
If they’re getting inundated with it to the point it’s affecting their actual mental health, then they obviously need to change something. Whether it’s the quantity or the quality of the content they consume. Logging off and going outside is always an option.