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One man's "doombait" is another man's "topic that should be taken seriously" I suppose ¯\(ツ)/¯

Can't say I agree. Mine is all memes and technology. If you are seeing a bunch of stuff you don't like try changing your subscriptions.

I feel like all of these are valid concerns to raise and posts to submit. If you're not interested in the subjects talked about, unsubscribe from the communities or don't browse in "all". Apart from that, just brush it off and move on.

I posted news about climate change myself. Not for upvotes, but because I'm invested in the topic.

If you don't want such news, unsubscribe, block or just scroll past.

"Good, but makes me annoyed it existed to begin with"

Bruh... It's an article...

Or you could subscribe to other communities that aren't feeding you that, and block accounts you consider as doomers.

Yeah i dont believe thats what drove you away from reddit, considering you joined 3 weeks ago.

There is no “front page of Lemmy”.

I suppose the ALL of your particular instance could be considered the front page of YOUR Lemmy but it’s not the front page of mine.

Two of the posts in the screenshot are from lemmy shitpost. Didn’t you post this in the wrong community? Now it seems you are rage baiting or concern trolling, and I don’t think you had that in mind.

To improve your Lemmy home page, let's fight climate change and end corporations' ownership of Congress and America.

My feed is mainly memes and porn. Maybe you should browse with different options.

It also seems you're confusing news you don't like with 'doombait', 'ragebait' and 'corporation bad'. Really, this post is the most distressing one i've seen on lemmy or kbin recently.

Ye you gotta block the shit that annoys you here :)

I'm in agreement with most in the replies. And the easy solution to both is to just fill your front-page with the good stuff and block stuff. Basically I blocked all news subreddits (except upliftingnews) and followed smaller communities instead of generic ones. Then stopped using All.

Have the same issue personally. I hope blocking those communities makes the frontpage better.

Subscribe to the communities you want to engange with and stay away from "All". Problem solved.

One of the wonders of the fediverse is that it doesn't have all the awful algorithms of Reddit or other social media platforms that are designed to relentlessly attempt to draw you in with increasingly hostile content. That's not to say there isn't a lot of negative content out there. There is. But, with Lemmy, or the fediverse more broadly, you have the ability to curate your own feed and an algorithm that will override that doesn't exist.

I suggest using the "Block" button liberally. I've found that works pretty well for me.

It should be considered that Lemmy's culture can be quite political at times and is pretty staunchly to the left as well, so as long as you're here, you'll continue to see content like this until you curate your homepage a bit. This isn't really a problem though, it's not hard to unfollow or mute a community on your end.

This is one of the things that I'm struggling with right now as well. My reddit experience was heavily curated in favor of smaller subreddits, to the almost complete exclusion of top subreddits. The thing is, since Lemmy is so new, it hasn't had the opportunity to build up a diverse array of specialized communities the same way. So basically right now all we have are mainly versions of the "big" Reddit communities, along with ones that decided to emigrate here from Reddit.

But it turns out, content from "big" communities is often the same low-effort, lowest-common denominator stuff regardless which platform is hosting it. Memes, clickbait, and ragebait permeate the top results, because well shucks, that's what people want to see and engage with, apparently.

I'm hopeful that if/when Lemmy continues to grow, that it'll become home to more active specialized communities. In the meanwhile, I've been trying to improve the experience as much as possible by A) trying to subscribe to more communities and B) slamming that block community button like I'm playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Re: the Chromium bad one - I'll be honest, the Firefox fanboyism was strong on Reddit too, and stronger actually because of how many people used Reddit back then. It's just that because Lemmy is mainly populated by tech nerds that you'll see them much more on the meme communities.

The main problem I see is that news outlets, people, and link aggregators like Lemmy/Kbin, mainly focus on the negative side instead of the positive said.

For example, focusing on the negative side would be "Climate change is here and we are doomed". Focusing on the positve side would be "These are the things you can do to alleviate climate change". Climate change is the main topic in both information sources, but changing the focus means better discussions, less ragebait and doombait, and a healthier environment for all of us.

Linking to news outlets won't change that, because we all know how they work. But I agree with OP, ragebait doesn't benefit anyone and only harms our mental health.

Unsubscribing or blocking communities/magazines is something that we can do, but that also prevents us to read other kind of news that are posted on those communities/magazines.