It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?
I do understand I can switch to any Mastodon instance I want and stick to a small community, however I like keeping up with trending topics in the world. Maybe the most popular accounts in the Mastodon community likes to rise up pitchforks every minute.
Most of what’s happening in politics is bad
You’re not wrong.
Check our Nostr, yeah it has a politicial bias but its not prone to censorship unlike mastodon and twitter.
Eh. Was checking out Nostr a few days ago because it sounded interesting, but it’s just full of cryptobros.
It is full of bitcoin maxies. It needs more people that are not crypto people on there.
The problem is that cryptobros are the kinds of people that drive away non-cryptobros. If you go to a site as a normal person and see nothing but cryptobros, you’re not going to have an incentive to stick around, now, are you?
Someone got to break the ice. Lemmy used to be very tech savvy, still us but now there are other topics to discuss. You gotta get on there and post into the void, get the ball rolling.
Lemmy used to be very tech savvy, but not repulsive. Cryptobros are repulsive (and not just because of the cryptocurrency shilling!). What’s my incentive to stick around?
Like I said, someone got to break the ice. You don’t want to do that and that is fine and I get it.
People need to join and create their little own corners on Nostr were you discuss other topics and maybe a rule in these corners will be no crypto shilling and not be repulsive. Eventually these corners will grow in size to were Nostr is not just crypto bros.
Or, far more likely, Nostr will remain a place for cryptobros. And that’s fine. Keeps them out of my spaces.
I follow digital art hashtag and now my feed full of art and furry art. But it’s better than looking at US politics posts that i never understand.
Same, digitalart and also pixelart fill a lot of my timeline.
(sorry, english is not my first language) what does it means “negatively politically oriented”?
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politically oriented = the post is related to politics
negatively oriented = the post contains negative emotions, eg. they are complaining about somethingComplaining about politics, essentially.
Imagine you have two friends talking about politics. One of them always says bad things about politicians and thinks everything is going wrong. They focus on problems and criticisms related to politics.
I don’t know. I picked some hashtags to follow, and now my feed is full of cats.
Mine is all amiga and Commodore 64 games. Not the exact scenario I was expecting when following #retrogaming
Yeah, not what I’d expect either. The lack of an algorithm is one of the things I’m not crazy about on there. It took me months to get into Mastodon at first because I got tired of the complaints about Elon. I only know one person on the platform too. But I do like the cat pictures.
Wait, what did you expect when you followed #retrogaming?
I expected more console games that 80s computers, not that I’m complaining. Just not a world I was familiar with
I had to mute all elon hate (love?) in mastodon. I need filters in lemmy to do the same.
Why is everybody so obsessed with the guy? Don’t like xitter? Don’t log in. That’s it.
That seems to be the case for social media in general. Reddit, Twitter, Lemmy, Mastodon… They all have the same political rage-bate content.
It’s easier to bitch about what’s wrong than to actively do something to make it better.
Well said, unfortunate reality.
Because it’s one or the other. This dichotomy isn’t even slightly false.
I mean plenty of people bitching are doing what’s within their power. This is a reductionist and bad faith argument
Everyone has the ability to change the things around them. People want to change the world. That is an unrealistic goal to start with. What you can change directly and immediately is your family/household. Then you can move to your neighborhood. As you change the things closest to you, then you can slowly move out to larger things.
Going on a worldwide platform and bitching may make you feel better, but it does nothing to change things and just makes people avoid you.
So every single action you ever take is to affect change directly? Seems that you’re not affecting change by posting here. Sounds like you’re bitching about people bitching. That does nothing. Kinda makes me wanna avoid you.
Let people bitch. It’s not hurting you in any way, and might even raise awareness of issues to people who aren’t familiar with a particular issue.
ragebait gets clicks. just look at twitter, what got the most engagement was ragebait meant to make you mad, which for the most part works
“Trending” is going to show you the topics that are getting the most engagement. Political content almost always gets a lot of engagement, because people will argue back and forth with each other, and each new reply will boost that post further up the ranking. It’s just the nature of that particular sorting method.
I use Tusky and I never see these trending posts. It’s great because I’m sick of the tedious political shite from all sides on Twitter, I don’t need it on Mastodon as well.
I’ve seen posts praising free school lunch getting passed by a few states.
Their logo is a letter opener?
It gets a lot more bearable once you setup a Politics filter that blocks dozens & dozens & dozens of keywords (mine is up to 66 words so far)…
Lobotomizing yourself is faster.
Glad to hear it from someone with experience!
Nah, I’m not brainwashed into thinking that politics is intrinsically evil.
Nah, you can’t aim the icepick properly yourself. Believe me, I’ve tried.
You have a word list I could borrow?
Here’s what I’m rolling with right now… I try to nuke everything even vaguely political…
GOP Trump Biden conservatives elections voter fraud senate senator house of representatives whitehouse reproductive rights pro-life pro-choice 2nd amendment gun control Marxist MAGA Pelosi climate change Parliament koch murdoch desantis politician fascist Rudy leftis liberal antisem right wing supremac on strike hateful elect liberals republicans democrats republican democrat congress abortion communist socialism socialist capitalism capitalist fascism vax global warming ukrain covid proud boy cops police defund minimum wage billionaire the government injustice human rights climate crisis democracy private healthcare public healthcare labor contract on strikeI fucking love you. Seriously thanks.
This is perfect. My current list just contains 10 different ways to block posts about covid.
I’ve deleted my main Masto account, I am so tired of the “if you like x then you hate y” which is just so frustrating and counterintuitive to a constructive debate. If you don’t agree with their opinion it’s because you are a racist Nazi that supports the genocide of trans people as well as being pro-billionnaire…
The main example of this is the whole Meta Threads federating with Activitypub, if you somehow see good things with this, it’s because you support giving a platform to Nazis and transphobes, which is just so far from the truth.
The weird negative point of mastodon is it massively facilitates being stuck inside an echo chamber because you can literally defederate with any instance that might have any hint of someone who doesn’t agree with you
And so in the end I find myself going to Twitter more than I’d like because people I want to see the content people I follow post there and I can’t just create myself a safe garden of opinions I think are “objectively” wrong
Weird. I don’t see any of that on my Mastodon feed.
It’s almost as if I get to choose what’s displayed in my feed instead of having it force-fed to me.
I’m thinking that perhaps someone didn’t learn how the system works and how to use it and instead just read #Explore. For a sane experience in Mastodon, you need to build a feed by hand (no algorithm will do it for you), build filters by hand, and in general you’re far more in control of your experience than you are at places like Echs. I’ll peek into #Explore every so often to find new people to add to my feed (and many more people to block from it!), but other than that I don’t use it. Precisely for the reasons you cite here.
This is also why I stopped going to Mastodon. In addition to negative ragebait politics being almost the only thing that’s trending (and I have too much of that in my life already) there’s no real nuance or tolerance for anything outside the echo chamber.
You DO get called a racist nazi transphobe for stepping outside the box or trying to support people, ideas or places that might not be 100% perfect or pass the strictest ideological purity test. I thought Liberal Twitter was pretty exclusionary and echo-chamber-y, but Mastodon’s a lot worse.
