Yeah I’m only one person here, whatever, big deal.
Anywho, it’s annoying to me that I’m inches away from leaving Lemmy because it’s instability right now is getting bothersome to use it. People have told me that there are other instances but the dealbreaker for me is to use yet more logins to use them, some of which may take time to get into because some lemmy servers have a review team that has to look over some things before allowing you in.
Then, from that, it’s wonderful to run into and be confronted by shitty people who behave too similarly to the assholes I’d run across on Reddit. With their dishonest takes, participating in bad faith, their brigading and all that. We’re supposed to be, mostly, done with this Reddit shit but I feel like overtime, it’ll just all be contaminated with Reddit shit that we don’t need more of.
I’ve only been on here for over a week and my hopes are considerably low. My only options right now is to simply once again go back to Reddit and just tolerate the shit there while wishing death on the nobodies that spend their waking hour on just shitposting on others for their own cynical amusement because their mothers forgot to swallow.
And the other is to just simply water down my usage of the other social media platforms that I am on because this whole social media thing is getting stupidly silly and ridiculous as it is.
People are going to be people wherever you go, there’s sadly no getting away from the negative side of that. It’s not a Reddit problem, it’s not a Lemmy problem, it’s a humans problem.
That said, there’s plenty of good people engaging in friendly discussion too (again this also applies to Reddit). If you’re constantly seeing content that makes you mad, perhaps it’s time to rethink your subscriptions. If you’re frustrated at people being people, well, we all feel that way sometimes but you can’t change human nature so best just to have a nice cup of tea and calm down for a bit.
You’re obviously pretty emotional right now from the tone of this post, and that’s fine we’ve all been there and ranted on the internet. But a bit of perspective away from the screen would probably help.
And of course, leaving Lemmy is a totally understandable action. Just like leaving Reddit or any other website. That’s all these are, at the end of the day, they’re just websites where we pass the time. Use them lots, use them sparingly, or don’t use them at all, but either way there’s much more important things to worry about in life.