Post #1903738

2026-01-14 19:40 UTC

we need more posts about what make us happy and less about what we’re angry at (which is pretty much goddamned everything). Unfortunately the “political shit” and “ragebait” is important. The Fediverse is what you make of it. If you subscribe to a bunch of communities posting political shit and ragebait, that’s what you’ll get. That’s not a problem with the threadiverse, that’s a problem with your curation. One that it sounds like you remedied, so I’m not sure why you feel the need to call it out as a problem.

Replies (2)

@mesamunefire@piefed.social 2026-01-14 19:50

I love piefeds default :) And as much as I dont like parts of bluesky, they did the onboarding the correct way.

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@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2026-01-14 19:54

Look at it from a new user’s perspective; someone who has not curated their feed or otherwise “made the fediverse what they want”. e.g. They land on Lemmy World or another big instance and their default sort is “active”. Doing that now in an incognito window, and half the front page is rage, same on the second, and the stuff that’s not are some random shitposts and Linux filling in. Truth be told, looking at that, I probably wouldn’t want to sign up. Especially if I didn’t know that different instances have different cultures, etc. Assuming they’re a normie (which we desperately fucking need here), I just don’t see that they’d want to stick around. Aside from trolls and spammers, the only people we seem to consistently attract here are the “Wah wah I was banned from Reddit” types and, while there’s certainly a sizable pool to draw from, I wouldn’t exactly consider them the pick of the litter for growing the fediverse. The point of OPs post is that usage here is declining, and I am simply pointing out that I feel all the rage and politics is not particularly inviting.

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