I don’t post on reddit since I know how futile it is to create any change given its size, but given Lemmy is small I might as well give it a try here.
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts here lately similar the doom and gloom clickbait headlines you would see from news companies. In fact, most top posts seem to have that “Reddit feel” to them.
Please know that posts don’t have to all be negative, there exists positive news in the world and especially positive news when it comes to technology.
For example, did you know a release of a new fully open source LLM called OpenLLaMA just got announced by the Researchers at Berkeley AI Research?
I understand how it’d feel that way on the surface but I promise, Lemmy is far from “Reddit without ads”. There may be some similarity visually but the under-the-hood wiring isn’t leaning on algorithmic functions that are meant to simply increase engagement at any cost (often by driving anger). Lemmy’s engagement is solely in community building. That’s why much of the emphasis for “doomscrolling” is dependent on how we handle ourselves here, the content we decide to create.