Most people will probably disagree and say that I shouldn’t be here if I don’t like it, but yeah, like the title said. I switched over from Reddit for various reasons, and at first it was nice, but now it’s making me depressed just casually browsing Lemmy. Everything here is so drab and negative, sometimes even downright hateful. Everything sucks, here’s a list of companies you should never use, here’s people that do horrible things, here’s a bunch of complaints about stuff. This is why the world sucks, this is why your favourite thing is actually stupid, this is why you shouldn’t enjoy xyz anymore.
At least half of the content on Lemmy is about American politics or how they affect the rest of the world, even on meme and shitpost subs you can’t escape from the constant barrage of politically charged content. And when it’s not American politics it’s American lifestyle, like I get that america dominates the internet but I sincerely do not give a shit about your egg prices or your celebrities when I’m browsing memes to wind down.
And on top of that there’s a distinct arrogance that permeates the fediverse, where people act like they’re better than others for being conscious, and you’re stupid for not boycotting 99 percent of brands and eating vegan and ditching cars and using european FOSS applications on refurbished Linux devices, etc.
Honestly I’m baffled when people ask stuff like “why don’t more people join Lemmy?” Because I honestly would not recommend it to my friends. While it’s nice in some ways, it is also so very exhausting, and for me personally, worse for my mental health than Reddit ever was.
Rant over and obligatory disclaimer: I did not mean to insult anyone, I don’t have anything against the ideologies and lifestyles mentioned in my post, I simply wanted to share my personal opinions.
Sorry, but I think that we’re just representing the world as it is.
Sometimes the world situation is so bad that everything gets affected.
I’m indigenous Canadian and whenever I have these discussions with my non-native friends … I tell them … now you know how I’ve always felt and still feel.
This is why minorities and people of colour constantly feel depressed, unwell, unhappy and negative … we’ve also developed ways to cope, one of which is to just normalize how all this is just part of our reality … it doesn’t mean we accept it but choose to live with it while also fighting it
Stay safe and keep the public informed on what’s going on in the res. We won’t hear it on the news, but a lot of us care deeply about what happens to your community.
https://www.health.com/condition/ptsd/generational-trauma
I heard a lot of stories coming up about ‘the bad old days’ and how those times affected the presant day. I never really beleived it then, but I’m starting to see how it might be true.
Man, you got both shit ends of that stick… being part of an ostracized demographic, and being a Canadian living through yet another Trump dictatorship.
If there’s any silver lining to the “51st state” rhetoric, it’s the opportunity to help other Canadians understand and relate to your hardships as a member of a demographic living under the threat of colonization. I hope you guys (as a country) can come together in solidarity, and best of luck to you personally.
The biggest positive from all this abusive/disrespectful behavior from trump is how united we have become as a country like never before Plus, the fact that we may actually avoid electing our shitty conservative/authoritarian version of trump
I would say that it isn’t necessarily just the situation, but importantly the trend that’s going in the wrong direction (at an increasingly faster pace). Also we just have way more exposure to (miss-)information and our ability to properly filter and absorb it just hasn’t scaled as much.
Because objectively most of us are still living very good lifes and there have been crisis in the past aswell.
I was reading some comic essays by Jean Shepard [he wrote the stories “A Christmas Story” was based on.]
He knew he was poor growing up, but in those days a little money could buy you some nice stuff.
For 5 cents he could go to a movie theater that really did look like a palace.
These days a comic book costs a kid an hour’s pay, and a concert is a week’s pay if you’re lucky.
But you assuming you can get access to a screen with Internet you have access to more free content than that kid could have ever imagined. And those devices are certainly affordable as well, since you can get used laptops or a tablet that does the job for like 100$ and be set for quite a while.
I was thinking more that you could e.g. start work at a company with little education, work there your whole life, be promoted occasionally and be solidly middle class with house, car and holidays. Not quite as easy today as it used to be. Nowadays it’s more of a winner takes all market than it used to be.
I found the work of Andreas Reckwitz, a German sociologist, on the topic quite interesting, but I’m not sure how available it is in English.