Social media even moreso than news, for younger audiences. Doom posts gets engagement.

Hey, does that mean we’re finally googleable? That’s pretty cool.

I remember people reporting this around the time of the big migration to Lemmy.

I briefly considered that I had fallen into an alternate timeline.

I feel like I’ve seen this title many times over the years.

Sometime between now and 2271!

Glad you’re still with us.

Yeah, 70 is too young.

I think most people imagine themselves living until 90-100. Sadly there aren’t any guarantees in life.

This isn’t uncommon now, and it’s sad. Social media algorithms pushing doom and gloom for clicks are scaring people out of living their lives.

The whole thing feels very similar to how Fox News scares old people for viewers, except maybe less intentional.

I see this all the time on social media, and it’s frustrating. I don’t want to dampen anyone’s passion for combating climate change (because I agree!), but it’s like a feedback loop for rhetoric that gets more and more extreme.

Something that starts out as:

“There was a wildfire in _____. This could be part of a larger trend related to climate change.”

Turns into:

“This fire was caused directly by climate change.”

Turns into:

“The world is on fire! Take shelter!”

Turns into:

“Don’t plan for the future. Don’t have children. Move somewhere cold and start prepping for the apocalypse.”

You can literally watch this same process happen with every issue that gets traction on social media or cable news. Then one side looks at the most extreme comments from the other side and easily dismisses the whole thing.

He’s not wrong. Groupthink elevates the most extreme rhetoric, and when people hear that, they disregard the totally valid argument as a whole.

If one person is saying “Hey, this could be bad for our coral reefs, polar bear populations, may cause more hurricanes over time, etc.” they’re going to be completely drowned out by the person saying “THIS IS THE END OF MODERN SOCIETY!” (paraphrased from an upvoted comment under this post)

Yeah, this is the fediverse’s way of telling us to break our old habit of piling on a single site and to spread out.

I have accounts on a few instances, and lemm.ee is the quickest and most stable of them all. I don’t know what they’re doing, but it’s great.

I’m not who you’re replying to, but I have accounts on a handful of instances for this very reason. Sometimes things go down or get laggy, and I just hop to a different instance.

It’s a strength of the fediverse.

I plan to bounce around anyway. The fediverse is great.

Maybe it’ll take place back in the day of Gwen, Artorias, and all the knights.

Maybe I’ll finally understand the plot. I’ve watched so many videos (and played the games of course) and feel like I’m only grasping parts of it.

It’s a fun time

I’ve noticed this weird behavior both in browser and with apps. I usually have to manually click “mark as read” to clear my inbox every time.

This is amazing