iktIt's honest work but you don't have to do it...
mastertiguriusI get it, they want be to be as outraged as they are, for good reason. Here’s the thing: unlike our friends in the land of burger and cookie dough, I don’t feel the need or necessity to be angry all the fucking time! I want one place, just one place on the internet that’s not shit. Can we have that?
I can’t speak for everyone else but in my own experience it is almost exclusively non Americans making it political at the Americans who are posting.
Bingo.
lol, absolutely not.
Top Lemmy “Shitpost” for the week: lemmy.world/post/43265418
For the month: lemmy.world/post/42879654
For the year…: sh.itjust.works/post/45786363
4th most popular for the year: slrpnk.net/post/24298695
The top of all time are from 3+ years ago when Lemmy had the most users, this is a bit sad to see:
Little did they know that users would continue to bleed out
It appears Lemmy has lost 2/3rd’s of the population since 2023 and just the leftwing Americans have decided to stick around to create a left wing echochamber that some people (yourself) don’t even seem to notice? In fact, I find that ridiculous.
GodricApparently not
This is one thing I noticed after coming here from reddit- I realized I was addicted to how angry reddit made me feel. It’s another kind of dopamine.
I feel like people are nicer here.
To your point, I’ve come to realize that just feeling angry all the time doesn’t really accomplish anything. It’s better to do some things to take action. So I’ve taken to helping the angry people find something helpful to do rather than stoking each other’s anger all the time. I think there’s an outrage addiction element at play here, as odd as that may sound.
I don’t really believe there should be explicit bans on politics in any particular space, personally, but I do think we as individuals can do better to look after each other’s mental health and contribute productive things to whatever conversational space we find ourselves in.
I think you’re 100% right. This was something I previously noticed while working in the media sector, not with anger, but stress. Some people would seem to purposely stress themselves up about very minor incidents, and I think there was a subconscious craving for an adrenaline upper and dopamine downer guiding their actions. It’s definitely a good general practice to talk down people who get themselves worked up, but I’ve met plenty who just won’t allow that. I’ve also spent enough time off my life trying to get people to calm down, now I just want to exchange clever wit with strangers and appreciate silly things.