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Where are all the Positive, Wholesome Communities gone, and where are all the hugs, where is my wholesome memes, to help me fight, the politics (slrpnk.net)

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Hey, I've been looking at what I'm subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I'm into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it's all cool and all, piracy talking about how it's bad what certain company do. And when you go in global it's "Amercan Politics" "Elon Musk Bad" "Stealing data", "our world ending"

Recently my brother and I where bored, and I went to show him we moved to lemmy, and said we had memes and all the stuff here. And looking at top memes, it was "complaining about big tech", and "complaining on windows".

And, I miss a bit all I had on Reddit not going to lie.

So is there any active community with some positive things anywhere you'd recommend. I just feel like I'm in a bad angry environment.

I've got:

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Edit: Wow! If you come after, I'd truly, truly invite you to look around in the comments, people here truly changed the way I see Lemmy, its way different now! Way better!

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just want some reasonable and active communities. Those "wholesome" based communities often end up feeling really fake.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, forced wholesomeness can be exhausting too. I just want normal convo where people aren't cramming their doom shit down your throat.

I replied to an ask lemmy post about how I stay positive with things going to shit, so I said how and people literally were trying to drag me down into doom. Like: "how dare you think this way, this is why you're wrong and should be feeling more negative."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, for most people it's "God it's terrible out here. I'd like to do things that make me feel better." And some folks hear that and go, "yeah you're SUPPOSED to feel bad because the world is bad and you should actually be MORE angry and upset so that you'll join my political project."

Which, like, has some truth to it. Capitalism is bad, true enough.

But if someone is just looking for connection, entertainment, and some good times to carry us through the bad... probably not the best time to recruit them into a political cause. Well, you could, if your political project has a big component of joy to it.

But I get it. I also get burned out just trying to stay informed. And maybe I just wanna talk about the new jazz album I found yesterday (black classical music by Yussuf Dayes) or the new game I'm stoked about (Sea of Stars). Good art would exist under any political system, after all!