-Looks out window. Lawn's engulfed in flames. Closes window shades.-

"All better."

I post to Lemmy a lot and generally try my best to not contribute to the doom and gloom for this reason. I think there's a difference between wanting to stay informed and getting addicted to the outrage/doom posts.

I'm mostly here to joke around with people and nerd out in a handful of niche interest communities.

Yeah, the doomposting is intense on Lemmy. I've taken up a policy of just downvoting any negative posts I see, even if I like the post otherwise, just to tamp down the negativity a bit around here.

The best and worst thing about Lemmy is how niche we are. It keeps out the "mainstream", but unfortunately we're easily inundated by perpetually-online doomers.

Also, I would recommend blocking users moreso than communities. Once you start looking for it, you realize that like 90% of these posts are made by just a few people/bots.

You won't escape US politics, it's just not possible

I hide posts when I’m done with them and I swear to god these political and news communities are posting the same things over and over again. I’ve seen the same post more than once.

/all does seem to be devolving into just a shitty news feed of US bullshit. I try and block as much as possible, but it's not perfect. Lemmy needs a way to categorise and filter out stuff like blatant news links. I want memes and discussion, not ads and news.

The worst part is that the articles they post aren't even good. They're bias almost to the point of being bullshit.

With all these posts that require voting i have only one question, "how can i vote if i am not USA citizen?"

lemmy is more US-centric than reddit and twitter combined.

If you came to lemmy to escape the anarchy and chaos that is Trump, you best be turning around.

I live in an even shittier country with even worse future prospects, so for me they are still positive messages, and i'm in ave that they are on a totally different level on the maslow pyramid

You're gonna end up with an empty feed real quick 😭

The Political Propaganda machine in the US is now at full steam given how near their Presidential Election is, so we get innundated with "vote X" and "X is great" posts along with "Y is bad" ones.

Advertising has become so abusive that you can't browse anymore without and AdBlocker, and Political Propaganda is just a more manipulative form of advertising, often pushed by people deeply emotional bound to "their club" (funnilly enough, I also avoid Sports stuff, as it suffers from exactly the same problem) hence far more insiduous and aggressive.

Then to make it even worse, this electoral cycle in the US is all about doom-mongering with not a single message of hope or a bright vision for the Future: in other words, everybody is selling Fear, which at least in traditional Advertising is uncommon.

It's gotten bad lately -- both the posts and the news itself. I feel like I need to take a break myself. Irony of this comment also acknowledged.

all of the posts are doom scrolling

That’s not what doom scrolling is dummy

I’m glad that users can enjoy the platform in whichever way each user feels is best.

I have a hard time handling all the bad shit in the world. I noticed lately I open Lemmy much less because of all the doom posts. I already deleted reddit and disabled YouTube. Lemmy is all I have left as social media, but it's getting less attractive by the day.

For some reason lemmy shitpost suddenly became politics focused