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Definitely Lemmy. I haven't really used Twitter or Instagram though. When I visit Reddit, it's usually just through search results.
Lemmy is often a very negative, dark place. It's also lousy with armchair experts speaking with authoritative tone as if trying to demonstrate an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I definitely don't feel like I belong here, but I keep coming back for some reason π
Really? I've found it to be the opposite. I left reddit because things felt so toxic with people yelling constantly about how we need to shut up and get with the program, don't speak out, corporations are good, etc etc.
Meanwhile here I've seen lots of people genuinely critiquing systems and lots of memes that are amusing. Are some of them darker? Of course, we live in dark times.
But I also see many groups of people sharing information on alternative projects and programs to not be so reliant on the capitalist systems, sharing posts of how people are fighting back against the right wing fascist takeover.
Hell, right under this post in my feed was this picture.
I've found more hope and inspiration on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. Twitter was full of porn and Instagram is just a bunch of liberals (centrists) reposting reddit and facebook lol. Basically, a pressure release valve so you can post and "feel" like you did something without affecting any change.
I left reddit because things felt so toxic with people yelling constantly about how we need to shut up and get with the program, don't speak out, corporations are good, etc etc.
?????? Like I'm a reddit hater, but man you gotta go looking for that kind of agenda there
Facebook. I have to avoid reading comments on stories about transgender people because it's depressing how hateful people can be
They are all unhinged in their own way but yeah lemmy is the wackiest for sure.
It has to be here because I don't use insta or twitter at all and I'm only looking at reddit for the Japan-specific subs to deal with tax/legal/disaster issues. So, simply by volume, this wins.
I reported a post the other day because it showed people dying in gif that auto-played and I couldn't avoid. That user later DM'd me and called me a coward, so that was a new one. I browse /new so anything I haven't explicitly blocked shows up.
Here - I donβt spend any time at those other places so I have no clue what theyβre saying.
If you aren't a Nazi why would anyone still be on Twitter?
If you think destroying the social fabric for advertising is cool keep using meta products
Reddit is just sad and bots.
Fediverse reminds me of early reddit, mostly cool, interesting people.
Check out this interesting bug photography I took. Praying mantis eating a fly.
Well now I'm hungry again.
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Up where the air is crisp.
Facebook makes me question humanity most tbh.
IG's algorithm is so well-attuned that I very rarely see content I don't like.
Twitter's a dumpster fire I don't touch. and Reddit is just phobic garbage nowadays.
IG algo thinks I'm a 60+ divorced latina woman.
Its the content you don't see though.
IG's thirst farming stuff is the absolute creepiest to me.
Reddit - Dunning Kruger: everyone thinks theyβre experts in everything. Also psychotic mods.
Twitter - Nazis and Nerds: Anyone still on there for anything other than tech and some science news is either stupid or okay with supporting a Nazi.
Facebook - Anti-Vaxers and Pedophiles: the algorithm ensures that even the most hardcore science groups get flooded with anti-vax comments and intellectually disabled idiots.
Lemmy - Anti-Technologists: thereβs a ravenous hatred for AI with zero consideration for how beneficial it is as a technology. Completely misdirected. Get pissed with the corrupt corporations and politicians selling out our privacy, content, land, water, and energy.
LinkedIn - Corporate sycophants and AI: want to talk about virtue signaling?
Find me an AI that wasnβt trained on stolen data by a power-hungry billionaire to make an excuse to buy up literally all the computers that humanity can produce while destroying social, political, and environmental conditions in order to corner the market and make us all subservient to their cloud for tasks we now depend on doing electronically, and itβll be just fine with βAIβ
π€ would you though?
Go look through the Local LLM Community. Also Machine Learning is a thing that existed before AI Dungeon, I'm literally learning ML in a class rn.
Thank you for agreeing with me.. then⦠not?
I pirate content. I don't give a shit about "IP", or the concept that surrounds it. Also, open sourced models are about 6 months behind the frontier ones. This has been the case at least for the last 2-3 years. Sooo sorry, don't care about "ooooh they used the content I uploaded on a public site for training".
Every platform has its crazies. Even here, I frequently come across takes so ignorant and disconnected from reality that I wonder if the commenter fell through a portal from some parallel dimension.
Even on inane shit, the crazies really come out of the woodwork. I had someone suggest to me recently (on a different account) that I was a monster on par with Hitler for setting up Windows on my grandmother's computer instead of forcing her to use Linux. She's 87 and wants to type shit in word, she isn't going to learn a whole new operating system and word processor for that when she can barely figure out how to log in to her email.
But VIM solves all these problems
Lol. If you don't bow down to the Linux gods the Lemmy mob will come for you in the dark of night.
You didn't mention it, but 100% Facebook. Twitter is 2nd, but the edginess explains some of it away as cringe insecure angst. Facebook is people who are largely just incredibly fucking stupid and sheeplike.
Its objectively twitter/X.
Twitter allows you to say the N word. And openly share racist shit. They allow you to dox and make threats to anybody that isn't aligned with Musk. It's also full of bots that retweet.
The worst part is that it feeds Grok. So Grok-powered bots say racist shit that get fed back into Grok.
Dear Lord, Facebook. I feel like my IQ drops 5 points just when the page is loading.
Instagram for sure. Insane amount of Nazi comment, ragebait, racism and overall hatred.
I often feel like people on Instagram have not seen the sun light for a couple of months to a year.
Twitter is clearly the worst by a huge margin
Insta is the only one i use and basically every post has awful comments that make me question humanity.
oh, I already know what's wrong with these people
once you get a good block list, lemmy is fucking awesome
I see a lot of dumb or reactionary comments all over, but the most truly "what's wrong with" ones? Here, unfortunately π
I generally understand what's wrong with people on every platform except for Lemmy. Lemmy has its own strange where you really have to work at how they got to where they are now.
Lemmy or LinkedIn. Facebook I long ago unfriended anyone crazy. Instagram I only have my dogs account and he just follows other dogs, so it's quite nice.
Mainstream news publications and online newspapers.
In Canada and QuΓ©bec specifically, the tabloid Journal de MontrΓ©al has always had the most ridiculously detached comments of any other platform I know.
It's closely followed by the comments on some CBC news articles.
What I recall of the latter three (left them several years ago) they are much worse than Lemmy.
Twitter.
All of them have problems. Lemmy is arguably the least diverse and thus the biggest circlejerk.