Answer questions if I can

If people would interact with others as they would do face to face. For whatever reason, we are so quick to forget the person at the other end. You'll see people complain or discuss real people with literally no empathy and it can be mind boggling at times.

Downvoted unkind discourse.

Upvote is for quality. No vote is for noise/disagreements. Downvote is for hate.

In theory, the lower a score, the less people see something. If I disagree with something that's said (like a civil political opinion), then I won't 'like' it. That takes away one potential point. But if someone is being unkind to others (mean, rude, trolling, etc) then I'll downvote, which I see as removing two votes. The one they could have had from me, and one from someone else. Hopefully, that means they won't get as much attention.

If it's really bad, then I'll also report

If i have something bad to say, i don't.

I block and never talk to the nazis.

• Report spam, scam, racism, hostility and clickbait
• Don't engage trolls
• Don't answer questions I'm not sure I have the correct answer for (or else point out that I'm just giving a "best guess" response)
• Try to be neutral or positive/affirming in replies. If I can't, I'd rather not reply at all.

One thing I've started doing more than ever is blocking a ton of people. For example if I see someone making a post about twitter/elon/trump etc. I go to their profile and see if it's just one time occurance or a patter and in the latter case I block them. If I see someone posting fuck this and fuck that and I hope this person dies etc. I block them without even viewing their post history.

There's just so many users on a platform like this that I simply can't pay attention to everything so by blocking the people commenting in bad faith is the least I can do. Some might say I'm creating an echo chamber and maybe so but this really isn't about wether I agree with them or not but wether your comments bring any value to the conversations.

It's not a life hack, but I try to be polite and open with people to a reasonable extent. I turned around several internet arguments with this attitude, even when we had a different opinion at the end there was no toxicity.

There are always the unreasonable idiots and straight up crazies and of course the trolls. Well fuck those people, just block them 👍

Since switching to Lemmy I use my up/downvote in a different way than on reddit. Upvote now means I think the comment/post contributes something valuable while downvote means the comment/post is unnecessarily unfriendly or just not contributing anything constructive.

Curate my feeds so I mostly don’t see negatuve content (doomers, cynics, trolls, etc)

When I see people going through something that resonates with me I acknowledge that its hard and encourage them to keep trying and that they will make it to the otherside.

Log off occasionally.

Not feeding trolls.

I'm building a peer-to-peer search engine

Before engaging in a conversation i try to remind myself of the wisest words i know

Radical optimism. Hell yeah! Basically anti-doomerism.

Force all social media to become non-profits.

I upvote and comment on uplifting/lighthearted content like this post ;) …and I post Dad jokes.

I try to contribute to OSS, host my own services, seed (legal) torrents.

Commenting to creators with specific things that I like about their work

Acknowledge when other people have been particularly nice, helpful, funny or interesting. Support those who make mistakes and hold their hands up, and apologise myself when I’m in the wrong.

I write a lot of comments that I feel add important information and context, I add links to save other people clicks, and I back down on the odd occasion I make a mistake.

Disconnect.

I type as snarky, sarcastic comment I can muster, post it, then delete it 10 seconds later because ultimately, no one cares.

Ban politicians from social media

I comment jokes everywhere in order to make people laugh, or at least smile. Or at least least slightly blow air out of their nose.

Use a non-chromium browser son that web environment integrity doesn't work. (Librewolf)

don't be an asshole.

works for corporations, individuals, and everything in between.

not be an asshole to everyone, and trying to explain my reasoning.

Honestly I joined the fediverse apps instead of traditional social media, Lemmy and Firefish and Pixelfed. It's quite nice on all of them, I got rid of Twitter and Instagram and probably will quit Facebook next. It feels much better.

Post photos of beans

Moderate the OnlineFavors subreddit.