I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn’t feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.
but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.
it’ll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I’m pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit’s overwhelming snark and negativity.
dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.
I know and it’s scary. Lemmy seems a million times better and I’m so glad I found it
Well there is hope that Lemmy is too small thing to be worthy of such actions. I entirely avoid any news and politics groups and just read newspapers without comments. This feels like a more sane and mentally healthy approach for me because I can deal with just the news author bias. That’s one person instead of judging thousands comments
The worst thing I ever done for my mental health was scrolling and participating in r/colllapse, quitting that made me much happier person almost instantly
I hear you there. I wish small personally moderated message boards would come back they were far safer