I don’t know how people like Blaze with all these communities manage it all!
That’s just because Blaze is omnipotent, and is somehow able to divide his attention into 50 separate communities. Unfortunately, my attention can only be focused on one thing at a time; sometimes i neglect Latin (i haven’t posted anything at all yet, it’s 5pm but I’m searching for content right now) I’d say I’m a pretty slow person mentally. Not in a bad way exactly, but i am very slow in everything i do, and that’s pretty bad for the community 😄. And same, I’m a hermit/lurker most of the time, but maintaining a community really makes you feel apart of the fediverse, and makes me more active in general.
I have no idea how some people do it, i guess when the fediverse was fresh, young and unpopulated, everyone had an equal playing field; a popular community like !world@lemmy.world was very small back then, and was probably equal to a niche community. Unfortunately we are not early adopters :)
I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
Bluesky is meh, but it’s a step towards people coming here. I tried it once, it felt almost as lifeless as twitter. It just feels really boring, and impossible to get to the top page; because since alot of users are from twitter, they’re just point farmers (or at least, that’s how it feels to me)
Lemmy can feel like that too (especially posting US politics on an unrelated comm, practically infinite upvote glitch) but not as much as “mainstream” social media. I like lemmy, i just wish people had more niches, but i don’t want it to go mainstream.
I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
Yeah, i subscribe to news and political communities on here, but i just can’t stand US politics specifically. I’m not american, and i’m constantly seeing posts on global communities about Elon, Trump or some other bs. I don’t block them by keywords due to FOMO (even though i never really miss out on anything)
And yeah, same. I never liked twitter (especially since it’s a cesspit of the worst of humanity) and Bluesky is basically what reddit is to 4chan: still bad, but not downright agonizing. I still keep a mastodon account around though, for not much reason though.
I do hope the lemmy userbase diversifies so we get less content on one country.
Ugh, US politics right now is trash if you’re an American, I can only imagine how old it has gotten for those who aren’t. It’s not like near every other country is going through equal drama of their own right now. My FOMO finally lost out, and I feel it’s a total improvement. Like I said, it’s not like I won’t hear something truly important from a million other places. I don’t need to hear about every bit of brain diarrhea these people have for the next however many years. If they actually start doing anything, wake me up then. The opposition is too busy infighting to slow anything down much anyway. If you live in a place where you’ve still got a chance to stop things before it’s too late, I wish you luck!
I’m not american thank god, i don’t have to live with those daily shenanigans (I mean, it’s not like living in a third world country is much better. but eh, what can you do lol) “Brain diarrhea” is the perfect word to describe US news, it’s just brainrot politics.
But what really irks me more as some dude living in the middle east, is seeing a terrible news article about an woman getting killed for example, for not wearing the hijab; and some dipshit in the comment says “Republicans taking notes!!!” And it’s like that in every article.
It’s depressing to live here, but seeing americans make our misery about them in literally every way is actually rotting my brain. I saw an article yesterday about Iraq planning to lower the age of consent to 9, and a highly upvoted comment was just about the US and republicans. Even when i complain about my country, some american has to compare Saudi arabia to the US for some reason lol
Sorry, had to vent; Thank you, i wish you luck too!
Some percentage of people will say things for attention, and I try not to publicly comment such things like you mention, but I feel it is natural to think them.
Our first instinct in comprehending something is going to be relating it to something we already know and understand. To an American, that’s going to be something in their life here they can relate it to. We can say, oh here is some horrible stuff, I could imagine this group I don’t like doing something like this. America can’t even cover its own news well, let alone global news. We don’t have context to a lot of what will be going on in parts of the world we aren’t familiar with. Many of us don’t even get to leave our home states still, let alone get over to other countries to learn about other people. It’s really unfortunate.
So while we can sound ignorant by saying things like that, I think most people are just trying to wrap their head around something horrible in the only way they can understand. I have a constant desire to ask “why?” so I try to take time to learn the backstory to events, but there’s only so much I can gain from reading that you know because you’ve lived through it. Sometimes people need to shut up and listen before reacting. As you said, it can steal the spotlight from the actual tragedy and redirect it to someone else’s problem, but there’s probably a better time and place. But people need to cope with what bad thing they just read, and they will express it in the only terms they can.
Most of us don’t even know that much about our own country’s problems. We know what gets told to us, but I don’t think many look far beyond that. It’s depressing, and I can see not wanting to put extra effort into learning how every country is depressing no matter where in history you go. For someone like yourself that has a better understanding because it’s the life you live, it’s got to be obnoxious seeing endless bad takes and irrelevant conversation. It’s got to be like when you watch a show/movie that talks about something you do for a living and you see the actors doing things that would never happen in real life and it’s just like, did the writers not talk to anyone that actually knew anything about this first???
For things like the women getting taken away for not wearing hijab and such, we have many unanswered questions of our own that are similar. During the police violence protests a few years back, we had police covering their department logos and name badges and they were throwing people in unmarked vehicles. Things like that are new to us, and that makes it hard for us to understand. We then see your protesters taken away in a similar manner and we look to draw a parallel to try and understand. Are the situations related? Perhaps not, but we’re expressing our thoughts in real time through some of these comments, so they may be out of line, but you’re hopefully watching someone grow mentally, and if they are concerned by what is going on, hopefully they will end up doing more digging into what is going on in both the situation over here, but also over there as well.
I’ve tried to learn more of the history of the Middle East, Africa, and other places as well through reading news and not really being able to grasp the full effect of what it was I read. But there’s a whole lot of history, a whole lot of depressing things, and not a lot of positivity for the future.
I suppose the only inverse situation I can give is about gun things, since that seems to be one of the big things about America people outside of here don’t get. There are just so many guns here. If we stopped making or buying new guns, you could still give everyone probably at least 5. Most non-Americans really can’t seem to grasp that because it’s different from where many of you live and how it’s been for a long time there. Most countries seem to have at least a few arms restrictions. In that sense we come from different realities because it’s alien to many of you, while it’s ingrained in our culture. In all our media, there is glorified violence, we hold armed police and military people to ridiculously high regard. Even those of use that aren’t gun fans probably support people who are armed. The perplexion those people get from reading about all our mass killings is hopefully not something you relate to. You may have militia type groups killing each other and many times hurting civilians by mistake, but we have regular everyday people killing other everyday people and that sounds pretty uncommon for most parts of the world.
This is getting long, so I just want to say, we don’t usually mean to be self-absorbed. It’s just many times how we’ve been raised.
That really changed my viewpoint, thank you. I guess I was just mad at how much sympathy Americans are getting, yet people like me are persecuted everyday by our terrifying, practically all seeing governments. And what do we get as sympathy? Nothing.
The middle east is a sealed jar of violence, with millions of lives at stake in it. It is chaos here. I have fully accepted the fact that there is no hope for this place anymore. It hurts to say, truly; but that’s life.
But when trump got elected, I saw sympathy and solidarity with American minorities around the whole world. And I get it, I do. But what about us? Where were they when we were being murdered for wanting dignity? We’ve been living in misery for a century, yet no one cares.
On a post of mine, showing blahaj zone got blocked due to censorship laws, a trans person commented this is what texas will do next. I commented my condolences, but I was kind of annoyed at how I was showing how censored and propagandized our lives are. Then she, as someone living in the free west, tries to equate our plight with theirs; I saw this as minimizing our issues. But I shouldn’t have seen it that way. She as I said, is living in the west. She isn’t used to our draconian laws, outlawing trans and homosexuality, living under an autocratic monarchy, not being able to criticize it at all. And when she felt a fraction of it, it was a tragedy. And it’s not her fault; she shouldn’t have to suffer like us for her struggle to be valid. She saw something weird, almost as if it was fiction, and couldn’t comprehend it, and tried to understand it with situations that affect her directly.
I’ve gotten used to laws that seem dystopian, draconic or fictional to people living in the west. And to show you how horrible it is here, take this for example: ive said some things on this account, which are completely fine in a western country, but here? I could be executed by beheading for my comments. I still think they’re worth saying. I live in fear everyday, and some people living comfortably outside can’t comprehend it, and that’s okay.
For the record, I grew up with unrestricted internet access and spent most of my time on the western internet. That’s how I’m so progressive compared to my peers, and how I know so much about the horrors of my own country.
Thank you, you’ve opened my eyes on this. Sorry this got so long and dark. I wish you the best.
That’s just because Blaze is omnipotent, and is somehow able to divide his attention into 50 separate communities. Unfortunately, my attention can only be focused on one thing at a time; sometimes i neglect Latin (i haven’t posted anything at all yet, it’s 5pm but I’m searching for content right now) I’d say I’m a pretty slow person mentally. Not in a bad way exactly, but i am very slow in everything i do, and that’s pretty bad for the community 😄. And same, I’m a hermit/lurker most of the time, but maintaining a community really makes you feel apart of the fediverse, and makes me more active in general.
I have no idea how some people do it, i guess when the fediverse was fresh, young and unpopulated, everyone had an equal playing field; a popular community like !world@lemmy.world was very small back then, and was probably equal to a niche community. Unfortunately we are not early adopters :)
I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
Bluesky is meh, but it’s a step towards people coming here. I tried it once, it felt almost as lifeless as twitter. It just feels really boring, and impossible to get to the top page; because since alot of users are from twitter, they’re just point farmers (or at least, that’s how it feels to me)
Lemmy can feel like that too (especially posting US politics on an unrelated comm, practically infinite upvote glitch) but not as much as “mainstream” social media. I like lemmy, i just wish people had more niches, but i don’t want it to go mainstream.
I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
Yeah, i subscribe to news and political communities on here, but i just can’t stand US politics specifically. I’m not american, and i’m constantly seeing posts on global communities about Elon, Trump or some other bs. I don’t block them by keywords due to FOMO (even though i never really miss out on anything)
And yeah, same. I never liked twitter (especially since it’s a cesspit of the worst of humanity) and Bluesky is basically what reddit is to 4chan: still bad, but not downright agonizing. I still keep a mastodon account around though, for not much reason though.
I do hope the lemmy userbase diversifies so we get less content on one country.
Ugh, US politics right now is trash if you’re an American, I can only imagine how old it has gotten for those who aren’t. It’s not like near every other country is going through equal drama of their own right now. My FOMO finally lost out, and I feel it’s a total improvement. Like I said, it’s not like I won’t hear something truly important from a million other places. I don’t need to hear about every bit of brain diarrhea these people have for the next however many years. If they actually start doing anything, wake me up then. The opposition is too busy infighting to slow anything down much anyway. If you live in a place where you’ve still got a chance to stop things before it’s too late, I wish you luck!
I’m not american thank god, i don’t have to live with those daily shenanigans (I mean, it’s not like living in a third world country is much better. but eh, what can you do lol) “Brain diarrhea” is the perfect word to describe US news, it’s just brainrot politics.
But what really irks me more as some dude living in the middle east, is seeing a terrible news article about an woman getting killed for example, for not wearing the hijab; and some dipshit in the comment says “Republicans taking notes!!!” And it’s like that in every article.
It’s depressing to live here, but seeing americans make our misery about them in literally every way is actually rotting my brain. I saw an article yesterday about Iraq planning to lower the age of consent to 9, and a highly upvoted comment was just about the US and republicans. Even when i complain about my country, some american has to compare Saudi arabia to the US for some reason lol
Sorry, had to vent; Thank you, i wish you luck too!
Some percentage of people will say things for attention, and I try not to publicly comment such things like you mention, but I feel it is natural to think them.
Our first instinct in comprehending something is going to be relating it to something we already know and understand. To an American, that’s going to be something in their life here they can relate it to. We can say, oh here is some horrible stuff, I could imagine this group I don’t like doing something like this. America can’t even cover its own news well, let alone global news. We don’t have context to a lot of what will be going on in parts of the world we aren’t familiar with. Many of us don’t even get to leave our home states still, let alone get over to other countries to learn about other people. It’s really unfortunate.
So while we can sound ignorant by saying things like that, I think most people are just trying to wrap their head around something horrible in the only way they can understand. I have a constant desire to ask “why?” so I try to take time to learn the backstory to events, but there’s only so much I can gain from reading that you know because you’ve lived through it. Sometimes people need to shut up and listen before reacting. As you said, it can steal the spotlight from the actual tragedy and redirect it to someone else’s problem, but there’s probably a better time and place. But people need to cope with what bad thing they just read, and they will express it in the only terms they can.
Most of us don’t even know that much about our own country’s problems. We know what gets told to us, but I don’t think many look far beyond that. It’s depressing, and I can see not wanting to put extra effort into learning how every country is depressing no matter where in history you go. For someone like yourself that has a better understanding because it’s the life you live, it’s got to be obnoxious seeing endless bad takes and irrelevant conversation. It’s got to be like when you watch a show/movie that talks about something you do for a living and you see the actors doing things that would never happen in real life and it’s just like, did the writers not talk to anyone that actually knew anything about this first???
For things like the women getting taken away for not wearing hijab and such, we have many unanswered questions of our own that are similar. During the police violence protests a few years back, we had police covering their department logos and name badges and they were throwing people in unmarked vehicles. Things like that are new to us, and that makes it hard for us to understand. We then see your protesters taken away in a similar manner and we look to draw a parallel to try and understand. Are the situations related? Perhaps not, but we’re expressing our thoughts in real time through some of these comments, so they may be out of line, but you’re hopefully watching someone grow mentally, and if they are concerned by what is going on, hopefully they will end up doing more digging into what is going on in both the situation over here, but also over there as well.
I’ve tried to learn more of the history of the Middle East, Africa, and other places as well through reading news and not really being able to grasp the full effect of what it was I read. But there’s a whole lot of history, a whole lot of depressing things, and not a lot of positivity for the future.
I suppose the only inverse situation I can give is about gun things, since that seems to be one of the big things about America people outside of here don’t get. There are just so many guns here. If we stopped making or buying new guns, you could still give everyone probably at least 5. Most non-Americans really can’t seem to grasp that because it’s different from where many of you live and how it’s been for a long time there. Most countries seem to have at least a few arms restrictions. In that sense we come from different realities because it’s alien to many of you, while it’s ingrained in our culture. In all our media, there is glorified violence, we hold armed police and military people to ridiculously high regard. Even those of use that aren’t gun fans probably support people who are armed. The perplexion those people get from reading about all our mass killings is hopefully not something you relate to. You may have militia type groups killing each other and many times hurting civilians by mistake, but we have regular everyday people killing other everyday people and that sounds pretty uncommon for most parts of the world.
This is getting long, so I just want to say, we don’t usually mean to be self-absorbed. It’s just many times how we’ve been raised.
That really changed my viewpoint, thank you. I guess I was just mad at how much sympathy Americans are getting, yet people like me are persecuted everyday by our terrifying, practically all seeing governments. And what do we get as sympathy? Nothing.
The middle east is a sealed jar of violence, with millions of lives at stake in it. It is chaos here. I have fully accepted the fact that there is no hope for this place anymore. It hurts to say, truly; but that’s life.
But when trump got elected, I saw sympathy and solidarity with American minorities around the whole world. And I get it, I do. But what about us? Where were they when we were being murdered for wanting dignity? We’ve been living in misery for a century, yet no one cares.
On a post of mine, showing blahaj zone got blocked due to censorship laws, a trans person commented this is what texas will do next. I commented my condolences, but I was kind of annoyed at how I was showing how censored and propagandized our lives are. Then she, as someone living in the free west, tries to equate our plight with theirs; I saw this as minimizing our issues. But I shouldn’t have seen it that way. She as I said, is living in the west. She isn’t used to our draconian laws, outlawing trans and homosexuality, living under an autocratic monarchy, not being able to criticize it at all. And when she felt a fraction of it, it was a tragedy. And it’s not her fault; she shouldn’t have to suffer like us for her struggle to be valid. She saw something weird, almost as if it was fiction, and couldn’t comprehend it, and tried to understand it with situations that affect her directly.
I’ve gotten used to laws that seem dystopian, draconic or fictional to people living in the west. And to show you how horrible it is here, take this for example: ive said some things on this account, which are completely fine in a western country, but here? I could be executed by beheading for my comments. I still think they’re worth saying. I live in fear everyday, and some people living comfortably outside can’t comprehend it, and that’s okay.
For the record, I grew up with unrestricted internet access and spent most of my time on the western internet. That’s how I’m so progressive compared to my peers, and how I know so much about the horrors of my own country.
Thank you, you’ve opened my eyes on this. Sorry this got so long and dark. I wish you the best.