I went back and got irrationally angry.... immediately realized Reddit was pure cancer.

Twitter is bad too. On top of the outrage bait, there's a ton of garbage posts that are just designed to farm engagement: "Which of these 12 movies from the 1990s is your favorite?" - and the post is just 12 numbered movie covers.

What's wild is there is a total side business that feeds on those posts. There are at least a dozen podcasts centered solely around AITA posts.

I was surprised to see so many "AITA for cutting out certain foods? Yes, buy Weight Watchers, asshole!" ads disguised as posts. I'm sure they're not new, but using a third party app meant I never had to see them.

I'm pretty sure the stories themselves are fake but a lot of the situations are plausible that I can kind of see happening some time. The comments sometimes have a lot of useful guidance for navigating complicated social situations. But yeah I do agree with you overall.

There still a little of outrage nonsense here, but it's mostly Tankies and other political nonsense.

Also, if you look at the bigger picture, Reddit is nothing more then a psyop with a bunch of extreme activists trying to steer people to support thier cause.

From looking at All I definitely agree. Feed curation seems like the answer, but I haven't found enough active communities for the kind of variety I want, and All feels like the right place to look for more.

Fortunately the Star Trek memes here are hot enough to melt dilithium crystals, and that's all I really need!

The biggest opinions get the most attention

Reddit keeps suggesting outrage bait when I check back in on college football game threads (which seemingly does not exist on Lemmy). Lemmy is never going to “because you once looked at a thread in this community”

Thank God I've blocked those communities.

I almost made this about some of the weirder lemmy communities, but I didn't want it to be taken as mean.

If you didn't know already, it's really worth knowing that anger is addictive and acts on dopamine pathways.

That's the same mechanism which cocaine works through.

Anything more than very occasional anger is dangerously unhealthy, if you value not being an arsehole for the rest of your life

(I might be slightly dramatising, but really everyone chill the fuck out, there's much better ways to get your dopamine)

I truly think that's what has been happening. People seek out stuff to be angry about for the rush, and the algorithm translates that into serving up the most extreme takes on literally every issue.

Gross. You know, I don't think I've read anything about crypto since joining Lemmy. That's really nice.

Kick it up a notch!

Thank you, Lieutenant "Pickle" Casmael.