• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    59·
    3 months ago

    I just scrolled past three depressing posts because I didn’t want to deal with it this early and clicked a comic instead, only to have it be this comic.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      This is the way to do it though. These posts are meant to make you feel a certain way, that’s it. Lemmy is starting to fall into similar traps reddit did, with certain accounts doing all the heavy lifting on posting, and so now we have people or entities using this to basically decide how the regular Joe schmo (i.e. me) should feel. And we often see editorialized titles, cherry picked info from articles, and obviously biased sources.

      Despite my cynical view on the information presented, I am generally in agreement with most of it, but I do feel it’s presented in such a way to foster anger and sadness among the readers, and that just makes me question motivation. Information should be presented and the reader should come to their own conclusions, and it is not what happens.

      Where Lemmy excels, at least for now, is that there is still some discourse. Posts that are negatively voted are not disappeared into obscurity as they are on Reddit. We haven’t yet sunk to having a hive mind opinion, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility, and it’s probably likely it occurs, because, like I said, I think we’ve already got bots and entities posting like they’re individuals.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      you mean the leash and the whopper?

      corded phones is exactly why parents knew what was going on with their kids more than they do now.

      news papers were more than just knowledge, they were judge jury and executioner. anyone who got smacked across the face with a rolled up news paper knew exactly why they were getting smacked.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The society which we unfortunately exist within has been built for the sole intent of keeping people disconnected and distrustful of each other.

      We let the ruling class destroy our communities and replace it with commodities.

      And just to point out. Me and you are no better. Here we are, on the Internet bitching instead of talking with our communities. But here is the thing, I have tried talking with mine. Unfortunately, they are a bunch of MAGA troglodytes who blindly support this country and its current administration. So, here I am participating in a community that is at least somewhat like minded to distract myself from the fact I live in a community that would happily string me up for not falling in line.