• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    You’re in denial or you’ve gotten good at ignoring it.

    Maybe. I’m plugged into my fair share of Fedi drama around the fediverse I’d say.

    A big difference I suspect is between those who scroll All and those who rely on subscribing.

    Otherwise, I don’t think this is a lemmy thing, it’s a fediverse thing. Even BlueSky. A sad trait amongst people has been exposed by alternative social … people are meaner to open source voluntary devs than big corp extractive owners.

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      5 months ago

      I agree very much about Subscribing vs. All.

      I hear about the lemmy.ml drama on Fediverse but my actual experience is no drama and I do not 100% know what is happening.

      I also put my head in the sand and only look at my Subscribed, which includes zero politics or “this company did this awful thing”-style depressing news as I’m oversensitive and too prone to doomscrolling. I stay informed somewhere else, not on the Fediverse where people can put so many understandably upset comments that encourage me to doomscroll. And I’d imagine those types of posts, which I know to be prevalent on Local or All, attract comments from people with strong political views, which is probably part of the lemmy.ml drama. I could probably block all the politics posts with a couple community blocks, but not the miseryposting (understandable, people want to vent or post an on-topic news article, I just cannot handle it personally without doomscrolling more things like it) that attracts “and this problem was caused because of [insert politics here]” replies—so many communities are appropriate places to post news that happens to be sad, or a meme about how much your life sucks.