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Don’t sort by active, only use custom feed, block communities which only contain “anger inducing” content, block people who post “anger inducing” content.
So… <gestures around broadly> everyone?
What the fuck did you just say about me, you little shit-lemming, I graduated top of my class in The Art of Fediverse Debates and I have over 300 confirmed [removed by mod].
I can win a debate in over 9000 ways, and that’s only considering text, not only do I have access to the dankest arsenal of Leftist Memes, but I also have control of a massive army of bot accounts¹ ready to brigade you and downvote you into lemm-blivion.
¹/joke I do not have any of such thing
Maybe delete your account.
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That’s all fine and dandy until your block list is a mile long and you only get a handful of posts a day anymore because that’s what you’re left with when you filter out the furries, anime porn, ragebait, OMG LINUX, thigh high socks, etc. The OP is right, Lemmy has just as much of a content problem as any other place and the blame is largely on the users.
At least on Reddit, despite its massive flaws, I get actual discussion that’s more than a sentence or two of “I agree bad guy is bad!” The amount of low effort engagement in here is atrocious.
you only get a handful of posts a day anymore
And that’s bad why exactly?
Well, I try to come here to keep up to date with what’s going on with the world and my experience is generally this is the second or third place that news “breaks”. By the time it hits Lemmy, it’s basically outdated.
So seeing a handful of posts that are out of date with barely any actual discussion going on is pretty useless. I find myself checking Lemmy once or twice a day, seeing there’s nothing worth being here for, and leaving. That’s not how you grow a community.
Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted:
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.
8 Nov 2021, 2:49 PM
For today’s lucky 10,000.
i am one of the 10 000, thank you for this info! have a great day! :D
i never expected that there was a wikipedia page about this concept that just explains it in such a dry way
this feels like knowyourmeme but less … sarcastic? idk. it feels weird
We need both.
Technology is awesome and I have a tech job and a house full of computers and all that. But it’s important that we don’t fall into the trap of “if we just got rid of the capitalists, then we could be on our screens all day in peace and health.”
If you cooperate with the primitive parts of your brain that evolved to take cues from the natural world, it can often improve things across the board.
Ah yes, because no-one got unhealthily addicted to IRC or BBS or SMS or whatever. Digital detox is more about taking time to be purposefully disconnected from current affairs and people you might be better off not interacting with.
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Although not the careers MUDs’ creators - I dated the daughter of one of them once upon a time, and his academic career was founded on his contribution to the creation of MUD!
*looks at Fox News
people can, but they weren’t built for the purpose of engagement bait like stuff is now. texting is sending words from one device to another without moderation or an algorithim, so you only see what people are saying
on most socials it pushes engagement bait and whatnot, and they’re both solutions and they can be solutions to the same problem or to slightly different problems that look the same. it is the fault of both the customer and the company.
not sure if its sarcasm, but anyway
Yeah it was sarcasm. Because people wanted digital detoxes before all that.
honestly swapping to a smaller social can feel better than a detox, or at least for me, so far
Mfs will post this then get into a 3 hour debate on mastodon about the ethics of projecting yaio shipping culture on a race swapped hetero pair of platonic friends from an anime with 12 episodes.
Hey, don’t gatekeep, drop the link to the thread 😏
I lol’ed. Danke.
No, there are PLENTY of people who need to touch grass and go hang out in a social setting from time to time.
Capitalism Detox
I agree, it’s a tragedy that the internet and the majority of digital spaces have been captured and wrecked by monied interests.
I would argue that we all probably could do with “detoxing” from digital spaces, as well. Plenty of people seem to be way too into the internet.
Here’s an idea: email your friends more often. It’s not a silver bullet but seriously, it’s so much more pleasant to fire up Thunderbird than it is to deal with the FOMO of keeping up with Discord servers and group chats and Facebook and Insta and Snapchat and
… and risk accidentally sending a wrong attachment file that i should not have sent? and i can’t delete images after i’ve sent them? no thanks.
If that is a significant concern for you then no, you probably shouldn’t use email. The other platforms are lying to you when they say that they can delete your photos off other people’s computers though. Most of them are probably lying when they claim to delete files off their own servers.
I dunno dude. Sometimes building a home or on the woods, way out where no one could hear me play my instruments and get mad because I suck, that sounds kinda nice.
Seize the memes of production.
Do you accept all cookies?
For decades websites didn’t need this ridiculous disclaimer and then all the sudden it’s become absolute necessity.
Because they put them on your device silently, and then the EU stopped them from doing that?
So you are fine with being tracked as long as they are transparent about it? In practice, you still have to accept cookies to browse the site, or you are kicked off entirely.
Absolutely nothing changed regarding tracking.
The spirit of the EU law was to allow users to decline cookies and still use the site. That outcome is meaningless to advertisers, who require tracking to function.
The EU law did not protect users. It simply made the internet worse
So you are fine with being tracked as long as they are transparent about it?
No, I’m saying for most of the time before that popup existed, the cookies were already there, you just didn’t know about them.
Yes. That is correct.
+100 updoots and no comment??
people are often shy to make the first comment i think :D
Poison the torment nexus. Burn it’s creators. Abuse it’s maintainers.
And we can achieve that by… boycotting?
