This entire community is becoming a shitshow.
with peace and love 196 has always been this way you won’t be able to fight it without changing the core culture of 196
what you can do is post content you want to see, which you are doing here so excellent work keep it up 😎👍🙌
Speaking of shitshow, have you been following American politics right now??? Asking for a friend.
You’re in a community on a primarily LGBT instance. One of the most affluent and influential countries in the world has one of their two major political parties trying to declare that anyone who’s not cis, white, heterosexual is an aberration that needs to be purged.
An attitude that is attempting to spread to other Western nations.
Something which is either actively affecting, or will potentially effect, many of the members of this instance.
So, uh, anyway… sorry for offending you, but if you don’t like things getting spicy then maybe this isn’t the place for you.
To be fair: Not purged, just sent to forced re-education camps where they beat the queer out of you with a $59.99 bible, in the name of a loving, tolerant god. But come on, who doesn’t love camp? Amirite?
Tell that to the hordes of people yelling why they won’t vote, despite all of this. Discussion with these people is like talking to a brick wall. I don’t think this community is appropriate for these exchanges.
Some advice, just block the users posting the politics, if your Lemmy phone app or the desktop browser version support doing so. If they post stuff you don’t want to see now, they’ll post stuff you don’t want to see again in the future.
Me personally, that’s what I do. My mental health is in a tight spot and I don’t have the energy for the doomer shit any more, so I’d like to hang onto some of my essence, because I can just wait to go full doomer panic mode if Trump cucks his way into 2024 and starts banning trans people from life (which would affect me).
Also it’s worth considering, a lot of these people being “no I want the Dems to lose because some bullshit” might be fucking tankies/accelerationists sneaking in here again, not all of them but a bunch. That idea really clicked when a friend of mine pointed the possibility out.
I’m not that versed in politics because of my similar aversion to it as you seem to have, but I do know those idiots exist, are annoying and loud, and are just contrarion moron cowards who want democracy to end so they can con someone else into doing a whole revolution for them after it gets bad. Even though none of them would last through the getting bad part.
So just block people posting uncomfy memes, ignore Internet psychos, vote in November, including local elections wherever possible, and we’ll all hopefully come out of this without too much lasting trauma.
I find reporting trolls and bad faith actors to be far more constructive and also productive then pretending that they don’t exist.
If the de facto response is to block these trolls instead of reporting them then there’s no way that the situation can get better. Lemmy isn’t a free speech platform like Nostr moderation is important and one big part of moderation is reporting trolls and bad faith actors, essentially calling them out to the moderators.
So do your part and report the trolls and psychos and if you don’t want to follow up later then block them, but it’s important to file a report first.
