I have kind of the opposite experience. When I go on reddit, I feel depressed and angry, when I go on Lemmy I laugh and learn stuff. Probably the communities I subscribe to though. I get political and regional news from Reddit (and don’t have an actual reddit account anymore). I get funny science and Star Trek memes from Lemmy and cyber security and tech news.
I disagree. This is like blaming atomic power for the cold war or the internal combustion engine for climate change or democracy for Trump (or the printing press for the moral decay of 15th century Europe, or the telescope for the Copernican heresy). Underneath virtually all modern problems are human beings making (often profit driven) human decisions. People have blamed the tools for centuries. But we need to look at the humans hiding behind the curtains and hold them accountable if we want to actually solve problems and change things.
People love to hate on generative AI, and there’s no doubt that generative AI is causing a host of absolute garbage outcomes in our modern world, but the problem is not that people use it to write code faster or make some pictures they wouldn’t be able to make without it. The problem, as usual, is big corporations making big corporation decisions while the human beings that benefit from those decisions are mostly invisible and unnoticed and even when they’re not are totally unaccountable.
Thank you. You saved me a Google search.
I’ve set up Lemmy, Forgejo, Nextcloud and Mastodon. Forgejo is unbelievably easy, Mastodon and Lemmy both are complex but if you follow the instructions you get there pretty quickly.
Matrix is like “Follow a book of documentation, then when it doesn’t work anyway, spend hours of your life troubleshooting a bunch of stuff that’s NOT in the documentation. Why is this so hard?”
It’s so much easier to set up and install than Matrix.
mander.xyz for science articles and memes. startrek.website and tenforward@lemmy.world for star trek memes. cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works for cybersecurity news, but not a lot of discussion.
The self hosting communities on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are pretty active and good at answering questions.