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Are you noticing the growing negativity on here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Octane@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve been enjoying the app and the community quite a bunch! However I do notice that the feed is starting to fill up with lots of negative sentiment.

The technology feed is 40% bad news, the news communities are filled with doom scroll stories and the localized communities are also complaining a lot. Some politics get added to the mix.

Lately I’ve noticed that I feel more negative about the world after a Lemmy visit.

Anyone else noticing that?

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[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Gonna be captain obvious here by saying “maybe because the world is spiraling into shit?”

And everything is, absolutely by definition, political. Everything. People who think they can escape politics are delusional and privileged. If you’re reading about some horrible new law banning encryption then yes that’s fucking political. Instead of head in sanding… I dunno. Do something?