Every time I look at reddit or twitter they’re designed to be filled with the most vile or annoying posts imaginable to keep you scrolling and this place just… doesn’t have that. It’s relieving to not be inherently angry just scrolling through new posts
Sites like twitter, FB, reddit, youtube, for whatever reason always push the most rage-inducing content to their front pages. I guess it helps with “engagement”, and they see it as a positive that people spend more time on their sites… regardless of the psychological consequences of having users angry.
Twitter especially, could just ruin my whole day, with the content it pushes to everyone’s feeds. They really don’t care about our psychological well-being, at all. Standard short-term capitalist thinking.
Just like moving away from twitter
It’s such a relief man. Visiting reddit after this actually makes you realize how bad things have gotten, on not just reddit, but rest of the internet. So much rage, hate and negativity. This place feels… normal. Reminds me of simpler times.
That’s the beauty of a free, not for profit, decentralized system. The only goal for the developers is to make it a great user experience. It’s not about getting clicks for ad revenue
I noticed that over the last few months of Reddit. I didn’t used to get this angry over everything, or freaked out, or anxiety issues. Reddit (and all social media) has a profit motive to give us rage-bait to keep us engaged.
Even freaking memes, aww, and basic communities were giving it to me, and the algorithm ramps it up.
It’s only been a few days here and I’m feeling much more relaxed compared to Reddit.
@scrubbles Do you run your own instance?
Yep, I saw how busy lemmy.ml and the others were getting, and reading the posts I saw how important it is to spread out the users. So I figured I might as well, I run a few other services anyway.
If you like music I’m trying to kick start the server and welcome communities!
I hope in the future they allow individuals to host distributed infra for existing instances. I’d like to help providing hardware to expand the bandwidth of the system but not really ready for mod duties.
I figure I’ll cross that bridge when I get there. I host my own instance for a couple small communities, but we’ll see how it grows. If I need help with modding I’d do what Reddit does and ask the community if there are any volunteers
Same. That’s the reason why i’m moving here
