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.
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 tend to stick to meme subs and subs for things I like, so it’s not too hard to find positivity.
I’m positive that someone is.
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.
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.
I was a little curious about this as well, how can you know whether or not this is dissuading the content scrapers?
Ultimately? I don’t. You usually can’t tell when other people are doing something legally or illegally, you just take it at good faith value they’re not doing anything illegally, just like with any other law on the books
I’m familiar with like robot.txt but I’d imagine AI models don’t respect that type of thing the same way.
Well it would be the owners of the robots that are scraping to build the AI models to honor the licensing.
If they don’t and it ever gets out that would cause problems for them, so I’m assuming they will, as the alternative is to try to scrub the text and thay would be a lot more time consuming for them to do so (extra steps).
My hope Is that the computer/Linux geeks that are programming those bots are open source minded, and will honor the licensing.
Either way, I’m doing my part, and assuming the bot owners will do what they are supposed to do as well.
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…
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…
That will require a signature field, which the Lemmy web client doesn’t have, and I’m not aware one way or the other for any of these Android / Apple clients.
What I did was I sent myself a text message, and then whenever I want to use it I just long press hold which copies and then a long press paste in the Lemmy web client editor.
Heres the template that I use…
[~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en)
There’s a lot of assholes everywhere. The block button is your friend :)
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.
Do I come off as positive 🥺
You do!
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.
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.
What does the sweet turning sour tend to look like from what you’ve observed?
In general I think lack of empathy is the main problem, though I think even well-meaning people can make others feel guilty about having normal negative emotions, e.g. “You’ll get through it”. IMO the worst may be the one-uppers, the guy who says “That’s nothing. I knew this other guy who had cancer of the kitten.”
Thinking about it, I generally only share really upsetting news with friends and almost never online.
Maybe both.
Are you asking if there are people using Lemmy to express positive emotion in general or to express positivity about Lemmy?
I took it to mean the former, and not the latter.
