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In what fucking dream world isn't fediverse filled with ragebait?

Most people I talk to pretend like it's too complex. They're upset about a single company controlling their social media, but scared about not having that.

I was very frustrated at everyone getting mad at twitter, and then going to bluesky instead of mastodon.

At a certain point, once everyone is there everyone else has to go there.

I will say fedi right now has a pretty good vibe. Some of the more negative/angry people have left and its been a chill little community lately.

The trouble is, there's a bunch of awful people on the fediverse too.

I have absolutely no appetite for requiring ID to use social media, but the anonymity in any social media platform, regardless of its popularity, brings out the worst in some people.

I doomscroll on the Fediverse, thank you very much.

Fediverse isn't all that great though despite all the cope, scroll through all and you see that it's 50% news slop about how US conservatives bad that's designed to keep you scrolling, 35% porn, 5% leftoid memes and 10% for everything else, pretty much like reddit minus the copious amount of rightoids. The culture is also pretty much the same.

Engagement and upvote hunting also does play a role, else there wouldn't be people who make posting their day job or (as of late) bots automatically scraping popular posts from reddit to post here.

Like sure it's decentralized, but what good does it do when it's almost the same in content as the bad platform it denounces?

Yard Sale. People stay in big places, because it gives them access to a wider pool of people. Veritasium also replicated this theory.

Fedi does suck in your not into tech or leftist politics. Those are where the bulk of the content comes from. The memes can be funny sometimes but the lack of video clips really holds it back. People love short video clips but they're expensive to host. Catbox.moe is a good solution but you're still pretty restricted in the size of clips you can upload.

Yet you doomscroll!

To be fair, I see a bit of ragebait occasionally on the fediverse too.

I've also seen a lot of smaller communities bend their own rules presumably for the sake of engagement as well. No ads is nice though and having real people around is also wonderful.

Well, Lemmy on Voyager is just doom scrolling and toxic with less content. I must be missing something if it is otherwise.

Because it is psychologically engineered to be addictive. Quitting social media is probably on par with quitting smoking.

Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.

Also, why is the guy who quit all social media "doom scrolling"? Doomscrolling what? An RSS feed?

Good for him, tbh.

I didn't do anything special to my feed, but out of the bat it's so much more depressing, rage inducing, and sensational. And the comments are way more...polarizing so to speak. There is more genuine people here than on Reddit, but every time I scroll here I stop because my heartbeat goes up. If Reddit is 50% bots doing ads and 40% ragebait, here all the ads are replaced by pure concentrated ragebait.

It's community run

I’m sick of all this Internet, causing all these problems

I’m one dude paying out of pocket to have a tiny instance (up for 3 years now) on the web that anyone can sign up on. No shareholders, no ads, no requests for payment or donation, no data hoarding or selling. With all of that in mind, people still won’t leave social media and sign up. They don’t actually know what they want because doomscrolling has them hooked. It would be fine if they deleted their accounts, signed up for nothing else, and went out to touch grass. But they won’t do that. They’ll, at most, ditch it for like a day or two and then go right back to old habits.

Paris is burning yet again because the working class is pissed off. The most the US will do is Go VoTe. We have zero self-control or drive here.