I'm probably leaving regardless unfortunately. this place, whole far better than the rest of lemmy, is way too cynical for my tastes. at least on reddit I got to escape the negativity of the world, on here I'm just constantly being reminded of it in every single news/politics/tech/science thread.
I feel similarly, although I left reddit initially (this was before the API changes) because of its own brand of cynicism, which I found was almost inescapable, even in small subs or posts which shouldn't have ridiculous arguments.
The problem is that, while initially this instance didn't have much of it, it's reaching a similar point.
I think that the people who will migrate with Beehaw are more likely to be the ones who want to get away from that shit, though. (I've also noticed that a lot, but definitely not all, of the more toxic comments seem to be from users on other instances.)
Best we can do here is block communities (it's been a lot more pleasant for me since I blocked the news communities here), but it doesn't solve everything.
I'm finding some old school forums on a couple of my private trackers to be a lot better at times, honestly. (Lol, one of them even completely removed their "Serious Discussion" subforum after Jan 6 and banned political discussion entirely because it resulted in too much toxic bullshit.)
Wait, what? Beehaw more cynical than Reddit? That... doesn't match my observations. Are you reading the Subscriptions, Local, or All feed?
Most of what I see are bad actors or just shit people posting from other instances onto beehaw. I think a lot don't realize that this is beehaw and just see the community labeled "news" or "gaming" and assume it's a regular old community.
I hear you, just don't see it. Not sure whether I come to posts late, when they've already been dealt with, or have blocked the right bad actors and just not see them 🤨
subscription. and yes lol ! I actually rarely see any kind of tech news or news in general without a bunch of negative comments underneath telling us obvious things (companies bad !)
I'm not on beehaw, but I ran into similar problem when I joined lemmy.
My solution was to filter communities and users where I felt I was getting apammed with content at a frequency I didn't enjoy.
I'm probably leaving regardless unfortunately. this place, whole far better than the rest of lemmy, is way too cynical for my tastes. at least on reddit I got to escape the negativity of the world, on here I'm just constantly being reminded of it in every single news/politics/tech/science thread.
I feel similarly, although I left reddit initially (this was before the API changes) because of its own brand of cynicism, which I found was almost inescapable, even in small subs or posts which shouldn't have ridiculous arguments.
The problem is that, while initially this instance didn't have much of it, it's reaching a similar point.
I think that the people who will migrate with Beehaw are more likely to be the ones who want to get away from that shit, though. (I've also noticed that a lot, but definitely not all, of the more toxic comments seem to be from users on other instances.)
Best we can do here is block communities (it's been a lot more pleasant for me since I blocked the news communities here), but it doesn't solve everything.
I'm finding some old school forums on a couple of my private trackers to be a lot better at times, honestly. (Lol, one of them even completely removed their "Serious Discussion" subforum after Jan 6 and banned political discussion entirely because it resulted in too much toxic bullshit.)
Wait, what? Beehaw more cynical than Reddit? That... doesn't match my observations. Are you reading the Subscriptions, Local, or All feed?
Most of what I see are bad actors or just shit people posting from other instances onto beehaw. I think a lot don't realize that this is beehaw and just see the community labeled "news" or "gaming" and assume it's a regular old community.
I hear you, just don't see it. Not sure whether I come to posts late, when they've already been dealt with, or have blocked the right bad actors and just not see them 🤨
subscription. and yes lol ! I actually rarely see any kind of tech news or news in general without a bunch of negative comments underneath telling us obvious things (companies bad !)
I'm not on beehaw, but I ran into similar problem when I joined lemmy.
My solution was to filter communities and users where I felt I was getting apammed with content at a frequency I didn't enjoy.
You might get some milage out if that approach.