Yeah that’s true. I get that US politics can be entertaining and lead to funny tweets, but the content inevitably makes you feel worse than before. It’s all so gloomy and brings out the worst in people. Doesn’t help that seemingly everyone is somewhat of a lunatic.

I also don’t get the fight posts. Sure you can block them for yourself, but just having them constantly on r/all for the entire platform to see can’t be good for the general climate.

Uplifting News is also often more fit for the Boring Dystopia subreddit, which I quit after a few weeks because the constant stream of negativity was slowly affecting my views and just worsened the experience for me.

All these types of content exist because they showcase a part of life, but the intensity and frequency are significantly elevated above the everyday norm. I wouldn’t want that content to be restricted, but I also think platforms need to make sure they create mostly positive places of community. I feel much more inclined to contribute if the overall feeling of the communities is inviting and open-minded, not overly cynical or divided.

Emotional and negative content simply gets tons of views and engagement and it’s therefore often in the best interest of platforms to push it to the top for everyone to interact with.

My silent hope is that that might be different for lemmy and that we can keep a more positive attitude among each other because of it.

It does help that I can share all my crusty but hand-picked imgur memes and people are actually enjoying them. I have even begun thinking about ways to create OC, something I never did on Reddit. Feels great to fuel the meme machine!

Try Top Daily to see new stuff. The ranking will be fixed in a future release of lemmy to sink old but successful post to the bottom of the page and sprinkle in small community content as well.

IPFS is basically fancy torrents. Pieces of media are accessed by the hash of their content and some metadata. It’s neat, because it can be linked as a URL/URI similar to stuff hosted on the regular web. But, and the main website doesn’t really make that clear AT ALL, all content is only available for as long as there are people interested in it. You access a file and distribute it to others from then on. After a while, people move on and old data is deleted from their cache, etc. Unless you ‘pin’ a piece of content and STORE IT YOURSELF, there is no guarantee it will still be available even 5 minutes after you delete it from your device.

In short: The website makes it seem as if IPFS is this big black hole of infinite and immutable storage when it actually is highly fragile. It can be great if used correctly though, for example if instances decide to keep an archive of successful posts and thereby share the load of storage and distribution. But because every IPFS member is also a distributor, the same legal problems that arise from torrent use will rear their heads again. So better not watch movies or browse a sub with illegal bits if they are hosted on IPFS. IPFS is not built for privacy either, but that’s a problem many p2p projects have.

Yeah I gotta say personally both sentences sound violent to me. They can absolutely be understood in both a violent and a window-smashing way, but the wording is so on the line that I too wouldn’t want to see it in a community.

The meaning of what we say or write is not purely what is meant by the speaker/writer but also in large part what the audience or the person we speak to hears and understands. As the person saying something, we always have to be aware of how it may be understood or misunderstood. We all have different contexts, experiences and ways of communicating. All we can do is be as specific as possible to remove any uncertainty. Vague wording is how dog-whistling operates.

Maybe a better way of wording it would have been:

“if people start flying (…) flags on their cars in my country, they better watch out for their windows 'cause I’ll be keeping a baseball bat in my car”

I see, interesting perspective. I think it is somewhat natural to try and bring everything reddit-style over to lemmy right now because we all want this place to grow from the exodus at reddit. Having familiar content and communities is how we can make new members feel right at home. Over time we will properly split off and become our own thing tho.