• slaytswiftfan@beehaw.org
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    I’m probably leaving regardless unfortunately. this place, whole far better than the rest of lemmy, is way too cynical for my tastes. at least on reddit I got to escape the negativity of the world, on here I’m just constantly being reminded of it in every single news/politics/tech/science thread.

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      I feel similarly, although I left reddit initially (this was before the API changes) because of its own brand of cynicism, which I found was almost inescapable, even in small subs or posts which shouldn’t have ridiculous arguments.

      The problem is that, while initially this instance didn’t have much of it, it’s reaching a similar point.

      I think that the people who will migrate with Beehaw are more likely to be the ones who want to get away from that shit, though. (I’ve also noticed that a lot, but definitely not all, of the more toxic comments seem to be from users on other instances.)

      Best we can do here is block communities (it’s been a lot more pleasant for me since I blocked the news communities here), but it doesn’t solve everything.

      I’m finding some old school forums on a couple of my private trackers to be a lot better at times, honestly. (Lol, one of them even completely removed their “Serious Discussion” subforum after Jan 6 and banned political discussion entirely because it resulted in too much toxic bullshit.)

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      Wait, what? Beehaw more cynical than Reddit? That… doesn’t match my observations. Are you reading the Subscriptions, Local, or All feed?

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        Most of what I see are bad actors or just shit people posting from other instances onto beehaw. I think a lot don’t realize that this is beehaw and just see the community labeled “news” or “gaming” and assume it’s a regular old community.

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          I hear you, just don’t see it. Not sure whether I come to posts late, when they’ve already been dealt with, or have blocked the right bad actors and just not see them 🤨

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        subscription. and yes lol ! I actually rarely see any kind of tech news or news in general without a bunch of negative comments underneath telling us obvious things (companies bad !)

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      I’m not on beehaw, but I ran into similar problem when I joined lemmy.

      My solution was to filter communities and users where I felt I was getting apammed with content at a frequency I didn’t enjoy.

      You might get some milage out if that approach.