I am just wondering… is it me- or is there a LOT of just general negativity here.

Every other post I see is…

  1. America is bad.
  2. Capitalism is bad. Socialism/Communism is good.
  3. If you don’t like communism, you are a fascist nazi.

Honestly, it’s kind of killing my mood with Lemmy. There are a few decent communities/subs here, but, the quality of content appears to be falling.

I mean, FFS. It can’t just be me that is noticing this. It honestly feels like I am supporting a communist platform here.

I am on social media to post and read about things related to technology, automation, race cars, etc.

Every other technology post, is somebody bashing on Elon Musk (actually- that is deserved), or talking about Reddit (Let it go. Seriously. We are here, it is there).

On my hobby of liking racecars, I guess, half of the people on lemmy feel it is OK to vandalize a car for being too big… and car hate culture is pretty big.

All of this is really turning off my mood regarding lemmy.

  • Doombot1@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I started blocking all of the political communities and that helps a fair bit. Still a fair bit of negativity… but at this point that’s kinda the world we live in, no?

    • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I generally try to avoid blocking things I don’t like- because that would just mean I was building an echo-chamber around myself.

      And- I don’t want to be in an echo chamber. I enjoy seeing and hearing different viewpoints.

      My big issue though, is the negativity around it. This exact post is a shining example of it. While, there are a few constructive posts, the majority of the sentiment around here is pretty negative.

      I think… I am going to go build a lemmy bot, that just automatically bans users displaying continued negative sentiment in their posts. Sounds like a easy way to brighten up everywhere.

      • Doombot1@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Y’know, that’s not a half bad idea. I like the reasoning around not wanting to wall yourself in an echo chamber. Good luck with building the bot! Have you built a bot before for anything similar?

        • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I have not yet built a sentiment bot, but, I have built a few surprisingly popular bots for discord, and a few for work-related purposes. So- the concept of working on a bot isn’t new.

          I’d say the hardest part, is just getting the initial tools/libraries/etc setup. Once the pieces are in place, the rest is pretty easy generally.