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Is anyone else tired of the doom posts on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When scrolling Lemmy (compared to reddit in the past), all I see is doom and gloom / news. I don't see interesting conversations or comments to read.

Occasionally I'll find something, and I've been contributing more, but there's just so much doom that it fills my feed.

I've had to unsubscribe from many communities bc it's just doom news reposts..

Is it just me?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yes! I'm also very tired of the repetitive "capitalism bad. America bad. XYZ terrible for the environment" replies. We get it, you have things you don't like. You don't need to repeat it on literally every single subject that exists. There are so many low-effort comments that just recycle the same 3 subjects over and over again, regardless of the actual original topic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the ratio of fanatics and extremists to regular people is very high here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's mostly bots and LLMs spreading authoritarian propaganda, not real people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

DaE Le gUiLloTiNe? Eat the rich!! Everything is a conspiracy, nothing is a result of complicated systems and incentives!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My favorite example of this so far, the top rated comment on a post about players making a one million science per hour factory in factorio:

Factorio is proprietary software, Mindustry is not

Lemmy is so negative, it even hates Factorio.