I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
Ugh, US politics right now is trash if you’re an American, I can only imagine how old it has gotten for those who aren’t. It’s not like near every other country is going through equal drama of their own right now. My FOMO finally lost out, and I feel it’s a total improvement. Like I said, it’s not like I won’t hear something truly important from a million other places. I don’t need to hear about every bit of brain diarrhea these people have for the next however many years. If they actually start doing anything, wake me up then. The opposition is too busy infighting to slow anything down much anyway. If you live in a place where you’ve still got a chance to stop things before it’s too late, I wish you luck!
Some percentage of people will say things for attention, and I try not to publicly comment such things like you mention, but I feel it is natural to think them.
Our first instinct in comprehending something is going to be relating it to something we already know and understand. To an American, that’s going to be something in their life here they can relate it to. We can say, oh here is some horrible stuff, I could imagine this group I don’t like doing something like this. America can’t even cover its own news well, let alone global news. We don’t have context to a lot of what will be going on in parts of the world we aren’t familiar with. Many of us don’t even get to leave our home states still, let alone get over to other countries to learn about other people. It’s really unfortunate.
So while we can sound ignorant by saying things like that, I think most people are just trying to wrap their head around something horrible in the only way they can understand. I have a constant desire to ask “why?” so I try to take time to learn the backstory to events, but there’s only so much I can gain from reading that you know because you’ve lived through it. Sometimes people need to shut up and listen before reacting. As you said, it can steal the spotlight from the actual tragedy and redirect it to someone else’s problem, but there’s probably a better time and place. But people need to cope with what bad thing they just read, and they will express it in the only terms they can.
Most of us don’t even know that much about our own country’s problems. We know what gets told to us, but I don’t think many look far beyond that. It’s depressing, and I can see not wanting to put extra effort into learning how every country is depressing no matter where in history you go. For someone like yourself that has a better understanding because it’s the life you live, it’s got to be obnoxious seeing endless bad takes and irrelevant conversation. It’s got to be like when you watch a show/movie that talks about something you do for a living and you see the actors doing things that would never happen in real life and it’s just like, did the writers not talk to anyone that actually knew anything about this first???
For things like the women getting taken away for not wearing hijab and such, we have many unanswered questions of our own that are similar. During the police violence protests a few years back, we had police covering their department logos and name badges and they were throwing people in unmarked vehicles. Things like that are new to us, and that makes it hard for us to understand. We then see your protesters taken away in a similar manner and we look to draw a parallel to try and understand. Are the situations related? Perhaps not, but we’re expressing our thoughts in real time through some of these comments, so they may be out of line, but you’re hopefully watching someone grow mentally, and if they are concerned by what is going on, hopefully they will end up doing more digging into what is going on in both the situation over here, but also over there as well.
I’ve tried to learn more of the history of the Middle East, Africa, and other places as well through reading news and not really being able to grasp the full effect of what it was I read. But there’s a whole lot of history, a whole lot of depressing things, and not a lot of positivity for the future.
I suppose the only inverse situation I can give is about gun things, since that seems to be one of the big things about America people outside of here don’t get. There are just so many guns here. If we stopped making or buying new guns, you could still give everyone probably at least 5. Most non-Americans really can’t seem to grasp that because it’s different from where many of you live and how it’s been for a long time there. Most countries seem to have at least a few arms restrictions. In that sense we come from different realities because it’s alien to many of you, while it’s ingrained in our culture. In all our media, there is glorified violence, we hold armed police and military people to ridiculously high regard. Even those of use that aren’t gun fans probably support people who are armed. The perplexion those people get from reading about all our mass killings is hopefully not something you relate to. You may have militia type groups killing each other and many times hurting civilians by mistake, but we have regular everyday people killing other everyday people and that sounds pretty uncommon for most parts of the world.
This is getting long, so I just want to say, we don’t usually mean to be self-absorbed. It’s just many times how we’ve been raised.
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I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
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I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
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Ugh, US politics right now is trash if you’re an American, I can only imagine how old it has gotten for those who aren’t. It’s not like near every other country is going through equal drama of their own right now. My FOMO finally lost out, and I feel it’s a total improvement. Like I said, it’s not like I won’t hear something truly important from a million other places. I don’t need to hear about every bit of brain diarrhea these people have for the next however many years. If they actually start doing anything, wake me up then. The opposition is too busy infighting to slow anything down much anyway. If you live in a place where you’ve still got a chance to stop things before it’s too late, I wish you luck!
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Some percentage of people will say things for attention, and I try not to publicly comment such things like you mention, but I feel it is natural to think them.
Our first instinct in comprehending something is going to be relating it to something we already know and understand. To an American, that’s going to be something in their life here they can relate it to. We can say, oh here is some horrible stuff, I could imagine this group I don’t like doing something like this. America can’t even cover its own news well, let alone global news. We don’t have context to a lot of what will be going on in parts of the world we aren’t familiar with. Many of us don’t even get to leave our home states still, let alone get over to other countries to learn about other people. It’s really unfortunate.
So while we can sound ignorant by saying things like that, I think most people are just trying to wrap their head around something horrible in the only way they can understand. I have a constant desire to ask “why?” so I try to take time to learn the backstory to events, but there’s only so much I can gain from reading that you know because you’ve lived through it. Sometimes people need to shut up and listen before reacting. As you said, it can steal the spotlight from the actual tragedy and redirect it to someone else’s problem, but there’s probably a better time and place. But people need to cope with what bad thing they just read, and they will express it in the only terms they can.
Most of us don’t even know that much about our own country’s problems. We know what gets told to us, but I don’t think many look far beyond that. It’s depressing, and I can see not wanting to put extra effort into learning how every country is depressing no matter where in history you go. For someone like yourself that has a better understanding because it’s the life you live, it’s got to be obnoxious seeing endless bad takes and irrelevant conversation. It’s got to be like when you watch a show/movie that talks about something you do for a living and you see the actors doing things that would never happen in real life and it’s just like, did the writers not talk to anyone that actually knew anything about this first???
For things like the women getting taken away for not wearing hijab and such, we have many unanswered questions of our own that are similar. During the police violence protests a few years back, we had police covering their department logos and name badges and they were throwing people in unmarked vehicles. Things like that are new to us, and that makes it hard for us to understand. We then see your protesters taken away in a similar manner and we look to draw a parallel to try and understand. Are the situations related? Perhaps not, but we’re expressing our thoughts in real time through some of these comments, so they may be out of line, but you’re hopefully watching someone grow mentally, and if they are concerned by what is going on, hopefully they will end up doing more digging into what is going on in both the situation over here, but also over there as well.
I’ve tried to learn more of the history of the Middle East, Africa, and other places as well through reading news and not really being able to grasp the full effect of what it was I read. But there’s a whole lot of history, a whole lot of depressing things, and not a lot of positivity for the future.
I suppose the only inverse situation I can give is about gun things, since that seems to be one of the big things about America people outside of here don’t get. There are just so many guns here. If we stopped making or buying new guns, you could still give everyone probably at least 5. Most non-Americans really can’t seem to grasp that because it’s different from where many of you live and how it’s been for a long time there. Most countries seem to have at least a few arms restrictions. In that sense we come from different realities because it’s alien to many of you, while it’s ingrained in our culture. In all our media, there is glorified violence, we hold armed police and military people to ridiculously high regard. Even those of use that aren’t gun fans probably support people who are armed. The perplexion those people get from reading about all our mass killings is hopefully not something you relate to. You may have militia type groups killing each other and many times hurting civilians by mistake, but we have regular everyday people killing other everyday people and that sounds pretty uncommon for most parts of the world.
This is getting long, so I just want to say, we don’t usually mean to be self-absorbed. It’s just many times how we’ve been raised.
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