Obviously, the internet has always been a toxic place, (the phrase “flame war” has been around for decades,) but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years. I used to think decentralization of the internet would fix the worst of it, but Lemmy seems to have gotten worse alongside the rest of internet culture, proving me wrong. How do we fix/improve this culture of toxicity?

Block .ml and don’t engage with .ml users And hexbear and lemmygrad

Shun the toxic people. Block them and don’t look back.

Seriously, block them. They’re still gonna toxic whether you’re there to observe it or not.

Find a well moderated instance that isn’t afraid to show toxic people the door

Block .ml, grad, hexbear, dbzer0, and quokk.au

Block any other instance or person that centers itself around identity politics

Block all the news/politics communities. Just get your news from actual news services. The comment section for most news/politics posts here is worse than an entire garbage dump on fire.And you’ll end up with like 3 federated users left which is basically my /all feed now 😑

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I am kind of torn on this issue. On the one hand, yes if you block all political content, instances you might disagree with, then you're going to end up with a very quiet feed.

The Fedi could really use some more casual content. Our media discussions tend to be short and not very deep, but we also don't have a pro-consumerist hype culture. We dont have enough concentration of people from any cities to have vibrant locals communities (not even huge cities like LA or NYC, London, Berlin). Even the tech/programmer communities are pretty anemic in content and discussion.

(I guess there's a fair amount of queer and trans stuff as well, that's good but is in a way the exception that proves the rule.)

Obviously I don't want hype-driven consumer culture, but it does often feel like the only thing we do a lot of around here is politics and memes about politics.

[–] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

Very agreed. People don't really make "I did a thing" posts, which is sad because that's usually the best content. Unfortunately, due to the nature of leftist living in a fascist society, it's not entirely safe to reveal things like living location, interests, posting photos, etc.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

And beanies

[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

the only thing we do a lot of around here is politics and memes about politics

At least for me, that's what I came here for. But I've never been a Social Media person anyways.