Octane

I’m not sure if we agree about the meaning of my post. My comment/question was more about the Lemmy feed. Nobody is arguing that the news is full of negativity (it sells) and I don’t think I was making comments about people’s common sense or anything else related to society.

My feed is pretty vanilla, few filters. And in the last 2 weeks I noticed that a lot of what drips into my feed is based on negative sentiment. Something that is inherit to news maybe, but I figured Lemmy was more about communities than it is about news articles. I don’t think this topic is too vague to put a finger on, but perhaps my post has some of that same sentiment included; making it seem like a complaint too much.

That’s fair :) was not meant as a statement. Just interested in opinions.

I’m surprised to see so many people say they haven’t seen this. Maybe the difference is that my feed is very vanilla with few blocked communities. That’s fair, though it still is something newcomers will be immediately confronted with.

To say that I “need” to see this negativity and am ignorant otherwise is a logical fallacy though. The opposite is true. We can be better.