I joined Lemmy a few weeks before the API change. I loved the conversations. I loved how the content was slower but more engaging, and less politically charged. There was nobody shitting on Elon Musk, or Twitter, or Reddit.
People were having meaningful, engaging conversations about random stupid memes. It felt like the early days of the internet… It felt like a small community of outcasts that all got together and posted shitty memes for the sake of giving someone else a feed of shitty memes to scroll through while they were taking a shit… Or not taking a shit, apparently…
But now that the Reddit API change happened… It’s like the super toxic part of Reddit was skimmed off the top and sent our way.
Every popular post is negatively charged. Every comment has an underpinning of hate. Everything is spun with some time of agenda that feeds half truths to make it look like whole lies.
What happened here? I thought this place was supposed to be better then Reddit? To not have some corporate overlord algorithm controlling us as part of some toxic hivemind?
Does anybody know of a Lemmy instance that has been spared from this proto-molecule outbreak?
I suspect the problem is you are on lemmy.world and that has become the default instance so everyone is trying to duplicate Reddit on there. So your “all” is becoming the hellscape that was the Reddit front page (perhaps worse as there’s no filtering algorithm).
Meanwhile, I’m on a smaller instance and my interactions with lemmy.world are through communities I have joined on here. So my “all” and subscribed feeds are fine.
So find yourself either a regional instance or one that reflects your interests and move there (there are scripts that will make this straightforward). You’ll probably start enjoying the threadiverse experience again.
This is exactly why I started my own instance: I decided that I wanted the local and also possibly the all views to be something I wanted to read. The larger instances are just so big and generic that that isn’t possible.