I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
I came here and havent been on reddit since the API stuff. RIP RIF.
Recently I’ve been struggling though. The number of posts that just worsen my mood has been increasing and I have began to associate Lemmy with upsetting content.
To be honest I still have hope for this platform but I’ve been looking around. I’m not planning to go back to reddit yet.
Everywhere online is getting this way for me. I realized that it’s intentional. The fascist take over of Twitter was a real tipping point. The fascist realized that anti-fascists congregated and connected online, so they started a full out assault on any place that has anything other than hardcore fascist ideology.
Also, the introduction of LLMs has enabled them to really slather on the insanity while making it more difficult to filter or ban.
Block anything that’s not a net positive for you. Instances, communities, users, keywords, etc. You will start to enjoy the communities you do interact with more as they feel more relevant.
Been doing that but it’s like sitting in a hornet nest with a flyswatter. Trying my best though.
I unsubbed from most political communities. The technology communities are still fairly political but I can handle it. My feed is mostly memes now (thank you c/shitposting) and stuff related to Linux and self hosting
Same for the first thing, not so much the second. I curate my subscribed list and find that much healthier than all, and certainly healthier than the reddit front page which I hardly ever looked at.
Another Lemming (I just made that up, what’s the correct term?) mentioned how they blocked all the news communities and how it improved their experience. Until then I’d just been blocking individual accounts. I took their advice and blocked news, but also politics, communities about certain countries, and anything else where the default seemed to be activism/rage/hopelessness related. I actually agreed with the sentiments or causes of a lot of the communities I blocked, but I found that those actually hit me the hardest as I would get invested in them. All this blocking has helped a lot. Lemmy is a lot less heavy now. There’s more humor and animals and less horrors. It’s not that I don’t care abotu bad things happening in the world, it’s that I start to care too much while being powerless to do anything about it, and then I was no good to anyone, not even myself.
RIP RIF can’t believe it’s been three years