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Mastodon has big “this is the year of the Linux desktop” energy, just self-absorbed posting and no collaboration between users. Aside from a rare few exceptions, it’s a bunch of frumps. All the shitposters went to BlueSky.
I've said before, there's a preference for filtering of normies from primarily Mastodon servers that i don't see on other fediverse servers like Lemmy and i hope that means we'll be able to effectively capture the Digg moment.
It would be amazing to see a pro-user regression from the progressing venture capitalist changes to Reddit
Good perspective. Everyone is happy in an echochamber, but nobody really grows without some kind of adversity, and even inane differences in opinion can be healthy.
But, people tend to focuse too much on differences. The world is enormous, people should be excited to learn something new, not threatened by it.
The sheer negativity is unreal sometimes. I know the world sucks right now, but there is no virtue in being miserable all the time.
It is so strange that people so readily share there personal issues, practically demanding sympathy, and frequently a donation.
I have no interest in spending all my time comiserating with others. I like to be happy, and I like positive people.
I'm with you. Once i saw someone on Mastodon bemoan that wearing masks is no longer a firm requirement for just about everywhere, I knew I'd stumbled into somehwere bad, where people found commonality in the pandemic mentally breaking them.
That is not me diminishing the impact of the pandemic at all. We're going to feel the effects of that for a long, long time, in a myriad of ways! I'm just pointing out that it's not only in terms of physical or economic health. Some folks are, mentally speaking, extremely different from who they used to be. And in some pockets of the internet, those folks are stuck in 2020.
I also like to be happy and be positive when necessary. Not everything we watch or play or consume is perfect and great and wonderful, but at the same time, it's not steaming hot garbage either. Going back to this decentralized community at least allows us the chance to be heard in saying "Yeah, the new Pokemon games? They have both upsides and downsides to them, it's not entirely hot trash!" and not be shunned into oblivion.
Yeah, there seems to be a collective immaturity that keeps people from having constructive conversations. They are so reactive, and seem incapable of handling disagreement.
Also, people think there is some moral superiority to being unhappy. They see or experience all the bad things that comes with existing, and that joy is only for the dainty privileged too ignorant or stupid to be horrified by reality.
Nothing is perfect. There is no guarantee I will live a life void of injury or trauma, or that I won't lose my freedom somehow. Everything good in my life could end before I wake up tomorrow.
I have a right to happiness. Everyone does.