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I basically feel the same. Not sure if it's just a side effect of how scary things are in the world right now, but I feel like the amount of escapist content has dropped a lot lately. By escapist I mean enjoyable things that aren't focused on the real issues of the day. We all need that kind of thing to stay sane, and it's in shorter and shorter supply on here I find.
The amount of politics leaking into every sub is also increasing rapidly it feels like. I block accounts that only ever post doom scroll content, but some of the bigger meme/entertainment posters have also started to mix in more politics and doom scroll lately.
I'd love to see more regular people on here with diverse interests, but I imagine it's not going to increase due to the prevailing types of posts these days. I've honestly considered stepping away from here myself, but I don't have another place in mind to go to yet.
It's an affect of people's warped social media brains that think nobody else can be different than them or think different than them. Who read everything through a distorted lens due to their anger issues.
I mean, I can't even say 'The Jewish population of the USA is 7.5 million'. Without random people telling me that is anti-semantic, and others saying it's pro-genocide, and both groups reporting the comment until it gets removed. That's how messed up these folks are, that they can't even allow statements of basic facts.
Or they will say it's 'fake' or 'conspiracy' information... lol
I think it's a reaction to feelings of powerlessness and frustration at the world. Social media is an easy way to get that energy out, even if it's a very toxic way of doing it.
Major issues and inequality aren't new, but our ability to get a 24/7 fire hose of info about it is. I don't think anyone's figured out how to healthily handle it yet. Consuming it all the time destroys our mental, but hiding under a rock isn't great either I feel. I've been struggling to find that balance more and more these days.
the irony is you can 24/7 fill your life with stuff that isn't that, but people choose to do so.
Just like you can be informed with a quick google query, but people totally ignore that option and embrace ignorance.
I think you're right, but it's also true that it's much easier to find the bad stuff. News in general reports bad news much much more frequently than good news, even though good news is happening too.
There's a newsletter I subscribe to called Fix the News that only reports good news, and it's kind of startling how major some of the stuff on there is each edition, things I don't hear about at all outside of it.
So I think you're right that people should try and seek out better stuff, but also I have a lot of empathy for not doing so because the machine wants us to be sad and hopeless, and you really have to try to avoid that trap.