My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix
My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix
my brain is literally depressed from having no ragebait to react to and frankly I am tired
Jesus, I've been consciously aware of the fact that I've fallen into this exact trap, again. Honestly didn't really know if others were trapped in the same cycle.
For me, the issue is that there's no viable counterpart to many of the reddit communities I used to enjoy. There's more general lots, sure, but so few that actually touch base on the same familiar level.
Maybe it's time to walk away.
I occasionally land on Reddit from trying to find an answer to something niche, but Lemmy has gotten much better and more active to the point that I'm seeing enough here to keep me from wanting to go back. I don't know official numbers, but it at least feels that way.
It's 1000x better than Reddit. I know you are a real person, I'll take your real human touch comment over "18F, I kicked my 45M boyfriend out of my home because he won't work or do night duty for our 2 toddlers. AITA?"
here's ragebait:
whichever way you put the toilet paper is wrong
Toilet paper is wrong and wasteful, you should be using a duvet.
Boycott toilet paper!
😡
Don't worry, I've got you
I’ll quietly downvote anything that mildly inconveniences my worldview, never actually contributing, of course. If you mention a personal experience, I’ll still argue like I know better — facts or not. And yes, I absolutely will dig through your post history to cherry-pick something irrelevant and weaponize it in bad faith. I hope this helps you transition over easier.
I won't listen to any jerk that has an AI profile banner like you! Support real art you twip.
Am I doing it right?
I'm telling the mods 😭
A coworker told me that I had "righteous indignation" about twenty years ago. It's still true.
It's a good thing to have, I have a very big sense of justice. But after 13 years I think I am done. I'll try to focus on what I can do around me instead of just getting angry every day about something stupid happening.
Agreed. Anger isn't useful. Action is.
I have only been gone from reddit for just over 6 months. Today I made the mistake of browsing it, there is so much misinformation, noise, and hate. After scrolling for about 10 minutes I realized that I hadn't seen anything of substance that I hadn't already seen on Lemmy
I really don't feel like I'm missing anything by leaving reddit
The only thing I miss is my current cities sub.
The rest of it is the same thing every day
I don't know if it's just me but last time I browsed Reddit or Facebook they just gave me a bunch of unhinged right-wing phobic bullshit.
I dunno if it's because my privacy skews their data on me or if they're just trying to feed me misinformation but either way fuck these companies.
I quit Facebook all the way back in 2015 with similar results
Leaving Reddit gave me similar mental health relief as it did when I left Facebook
It’s so bad now that the default client is king and now that a lot of the good super users bailed.
The content and the algo that sorts it is terrible.
don't worry, we have plenty here on lemmy
even if you don't want it you'll still get it