I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

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    10 months ago

    Marked spoiler for potential vibe harshing

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    It might be a mix of a lot of things. The Palestinian Genocide, Ukrainian War, Chinese Expansion, actual probable chance of a second Trump Presidency, and a great many other issues are probably weighing heavy on the minds of net denizens. That and less sunlight than in the summer months.

    Plus I’ve never seen any posts from a Foodporn or cute pets lemmy community, but I have seen crimes against the culinary arts and some posts about pets that have died.

    People are just not feeling optimistic, and that leads to feelings of repression and anger.

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      10 months ago

      The spoiler block doesn’t work on Sync it seems, unless you used the wrong >!spoiler tags!<. I wonder if it was the full stop or it being broken over several lines.

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        10 months ago

        Seems like Sync only understands one-line spoilers, so you need each line in a separate spoiler

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        10 months ago

        I definitely haven’t used the wrong tags because my instance formatted it for me when I selected the text and clicked the spoiler button above the text box. I’m sorry yours uses a different format or that your reader/viewer application doesn’t support it.

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          Weird, I did the same from the editor. it works for me on Sync bot not on lemmy.world on web /: Guess they need to sync these, otherwise we’ll have spoilers floating around everywhere in the face of unsuspecting readers