• Social media created an immediate soap box for everyone, and a way for unhealthy ideas to propagate quicker and more virally. It encourages vanity, inhibition, and unrealistic expectations. Then there’s the whole corporate element, where the mainstream of these platforms are truly just systems of data collection and manipulation.
  • Dead internet theory coming in nicely
  • The early advent of the internet had high hopes it would be used for the sharing of information. It indeed is, but the most widely used search engines are weighted to point you towards curated and questionable sources of information. This is purposeful, and often capitalistically motivated versus educational.
  • There’s more, but I’m tired and didn’t expect to type all this out, so I’ll leave it for the comments.
  • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    18 days ago

    This is one of those times when Lemmy users act like they are different and better than everyone else. But it doesn’t take a lot of time to find people being toxic on Lemmy.

    Hell, I started to sporadically use Instagram again because of friends and - at least in regards to what I see - it’s a much happier less toxic place than this. Not great, plenty of things I could criticize, but I can handle being there a lot longer. But everyone just wants to throw blame at corps and judge themselves free of any wrongdoing. Same behavior as when it comes to climate and environmentalism.

    This place started with the intent of being different and better than reddit, but now it’s almost indistinguishable in terms of user behavior and attitude. Everything is an argument, everything is a fight, everyone knows better than everyone else and acts condescendingly.