Be the change you want to see in the world
I am positive AMA
Are you positive enough to jump a car?
No, I'm afraid I'm negative
Only fools are positive
I'm sorry to hear that, I hope treatment is still possible
Positive to positive, negative to ground?
I see some positivity. It's like reddit, you have to work to stay away from the communities that are wont to devolve into a feedback loop of negativity
It's harder than on Reddit, though, because the population as a whole is so much smaller. There aren't alternative communities for most topics- there aren't communities at all for most topics- and you keep seeing the same small group of prolific posters so the views aren't as diverse. If you happen to align with that group's views, great, but I find it a lot easier to end up as the lone unpopular view than on Reddit.
I'm hoping this will continue to improve over time as the Fediverse grows and diversifies more.
Indeed, well said.
How is mbin development going in your opinion? I am hearing good things but I still haven't gotten around to making an account.
I haven't been paying close attention but it seems to be doing well. I originally joined the Fediverse on kbin.social because I liked the idea of supporting an alternative to a Lemmy monoculture, especially given what I'd seen of Lemmy's devs' views, but over time it became apparent that the lone developer of kbin wasn't intending to take advantage of outside assistance and that it wasn't going to work out as a single-person project in the long run. So I'm glad mBin forked, it seems to have picked up the necessary momentum. The mBin instance I'm on has had the occasional downtime or bug but nowhere near the kind of trouble kBin routinely had.
I see some positivity. It’s like reddit, you have to work to stay away from the communities that are wont to devolve into a feedback loop of negativity
I find that browsing by 'New' instead of 'Hot' helps somewhat.
Though the responses you get to your comments on new posts still tend to be more antagonistic than friendly.
I tend to stick to meme subs and subs for things I like, so it's not too hard to find positivity.
Sure, look at my history, I'm a real sunshine here
I got 4 comments down before reading the things about dalmatians 😢
Aw yeah that one wasn't so uplifting, but continue scrolling there are cat pictures
I'm having a good time 💕
Me too! :)
I'm positive that someone is.
On a more serious note, honestly? I don't see very many people doing that.
Even worse, in fact I am of the opinion that many are conflict bots, and not actual real people. Bots don't seem to be policed well here on Lemmy.
Off topic but I’m kinda new here, why do you have that
Its an anti Commercial-AI license. Basically to try to limit bots and prevent my comments being used to program AI models.
I was a little curious about this as well, how can you know whether or not this is dissuading the content scrapers? I'm familiar with like robot.txt but I'd imagine AI models don't respect that type of thing the same way.
Ah makes sense! Maybe I should use it too
Is there an automatic way you add it to the end of your comments? As far as I can see it's not possible in the Boost for Lemmy app on Android...
I see lots of positivity! There's a lot of news which is mostly bad of course, but there's also memes and cats and casual chats, and fun nerdy stuff.
No.
I try, but it's sometimes difficult not to get caught up in the perpetual pessimism. I've caught myself responding with more defeatism before, recognized what I was doing, and changed my response. Lemmings are generally more aware as people, so they're naturally going to be more cynical. But, we have a lot of extremists too, and then kids who see the extremist edge lord stuff, think it's cool, and parrot it on every post, regardless of relevancy. I've also had positive messages deleted by mods who don't like that they contradict their philosophy. Anyways, let's all make an effort to be more positive at least a few times per day.
There's a lot of assholes everywhere. The block button is your friend :)
I find the question as phrased is ambiguous. Are you asking if there are people using Lemmy to express positive emotion in general or to express positivity about Lemmy?
I can comment generally that I do feel like positivity is often in short supply in social media spaces, and when one does encounter it, it may be of the toxic variety.
Maybe both.
Do I come off as positive 🥺
You do!
Yeah, they're all stealing electrons. /joke
...if you want a serious answer, define "to be positive" in an objective way. Otherwise we'll all end talking about our personal experiences, that may or may not match.
Even if not, you can be!
Consider your Finders Bias.
This is kind of a strange question... it's like you got up on your soapbox and said nothing.
There's plenty of positivity here. In fact, unless you recently cleaned it up, your post history is filled with examples of positive comments and posts that also got positive responses.
Why did you make this post? Lol
Hehehehehe, thank you. I try to be good.
I find that the circlejerk jerks much harder on Lemmy than it does on reddit.
You look nice today.
Actively try to be!
I'm positively throbbing
Yes, I just finished the Dungeon of Lost Souls in Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen™. Hardly anything more positive than that.
No, I'm in a perpetual state of uncertainty.
Honestly. I try to use Lemmy for positive stuff as much as possible. Hobby stuff, jokes and as few political comments as possible.
I use reddit to vent frustration and bitch and moan.
Me!
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