Of course, that’s to be expected, with people migrating from Reddit and all, but the title is kind of badly worded.
Feel there’s a lot more argumentative and just kind of… angry users on here. (have you seen Sync fans biting everyone’s asses over saying money should be spent funding instances and not an app?)
Live laugh love Lemmy though :)
Yes … yes … more isolation, more bubbles…
You think people should be forced to see things they don’t want to?
I’m not agreeing with the above, but it’s nuanced. Content curation is a sliding scale that can create an echo chamber if one becomes too insular. On the internet especially where discourse can be inflammatory, avoiding some topics can shut you off from entire ideas that may otherwise be benign.
IMO create the experience you want, but build resilience and test your limits often. It’s healthier for yourself and the internet as a community.
I’m very much in agreement with you. I think there’s an important value in seeking out those you disagree with. If your values can’t stand under scrutiny then you really do need to carefully consider them.
At the same time there’s space between what you disagree with and what is harmful to your state of mind for most people. Plenty of people don’t want to see anything NSFW and removing that is in no way turning their experience into a bubble.
Nuance is absolutely an important word here but I think the knee jerk isolation response to mention of blocking things is far more harmful than helpful.
it does seem to me that the people that whinge about bubbles are mostly people espousing reprehensible opinions, while ironically being most aligned with the people in the deepest conservative bubbles.
Gee I wonder what kind of opinion the person who down voted you has
It’s not seeing it that’s the problem, it’s commenting on something, then being attacked for wrong-think, because the instance is tied to a certain ideology that I don’t hold. Someone specifically told me to find another instance, basically telling me not to poke their bubble. I’m trying to honor that, as well as my sanity. I’m willing to have discussions, but it seems others aren’t. They just downvote like crazy and attack me as a person instead of various arguments or ideas. If that’s how it’s going to be, I don’t want to accidentally stumble into it.
There is also a significant amount of cartoon animal porn. I think about 40 of the spaces I blocked were for that. I’m just not interested in seeing that. I’d like to block the instance that hosts most of it, rather than having to block countless individual spaces as I happen across a giant animal dick banging a pony. People are free to have their kinks, but I’d like to be able to simply block it all so I don’t need to know every possible furry porn niche, or yiff(?) I think that’s what I’ve been seeing on a lot of them. I don’t even know what that is.