I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn’t feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.
but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.
it’ll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I’m pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit’s overwhelming snark and negativity.
dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.
Yep it’s out of control. There’s a lot of research showing extremist groups utilise social media to help spread propaganda, misinformation and recruit people. Cults can be political. It’s really scary
It’s kind of disturbing. Usually wars are something we think of as distant, then we go to the web and realize there are state actors, possibly with blood on their hands, doing social manipulation.
I got manipulated few times, maybe more times that I don’t even know about. Sometimes I feel like we should turn off all the social media because we can’t use them safely. Even knowing all this theoretically doesn’t make it better.
One would think that if you are aware of possibilities you can use the internet but there are just tricks to human psyche that work every time and you can’t really browse cat images and think constantly about some geopolitics or product placements
I know and it’s scary. Lemmy seems a million times better and I’m so glad I found it
Well there is hope that Lemmy is too small thing to be worthy of such actions. I entirely avoid any news and politics groups and just read newspapers without comments. This feels like a more sane and mentally healthy approach for me because I can deal with just the news author bias. That’s one person instead of judging thousands comments
The worst thing I ever done for my mental health was scrolling and participating in r/colllapse, quitting that made me much happier person almost instantly