Grizzzlay

Will I stay at the quieter, cooler and more positive communities rather than be addicted to the endless scrollfests of cringe and toxicity? You bet I’m staying here :)

Besides, even if they step back, odds are good that they’d just make other, less pleasing changes anyway.

The day I joined Beehaw is the day I deleted my 13 year old Reddit account. I’m already feeling the effects of spending less time scrolling and reading through comments, and more time actually talking to people.

It feels good :)

I’m with you. Once i saw someone on Mastodon bemoan that wearing masks is no longer a firm requirement for just about everywhere, I knew I’d stumbled into somehwere bad, where people found commonality in the pandemic mentally breaking them.

That is not me diminishing the impact of the pandemic at all. We’re going to feel the effects of that for a long, long time, in a myriad of ways! I’m just pointing out that it’s not only in terms of physical or economic health. Some folks are, mentally speaking, extremely different from who they used to be. And in some pockets of the internet, those folks are stuck in 2020.

I also like to be happy and be positive when necessary. Not everything we watch or play or consume is perfect and great and wonderful, but at the same time, it’s not steaming hot garbage either. Going back to this decentralized community at least allows us the chance to be heard in saying “Yeah, the new Pokemon games? They have both upsides and downsides to them, it’s not entirely hot trash!” and not be shunned into oblivion.

Mastodon has big “this is the year of the Linux desktop” energy, just self-absorbed posting and no collaboration between users. Aside from a rare few exceptions, it’s a bunch of frumps. All the shitposters went to BlueSky.

Submitting content, a way to see the various communities to subscribe to would be two big things I’d like to see it do!