• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      73·
      3 months ago

      People call stuff like Lemmy, 4chan or Reddit social media too but to me it’s always these Facebook or Instagram style self-presentation platforms. All of them suck ass.

      • spread@programming.dev
        411·
        3 months ago

        I’d categorize these as forums rather than social media. I mean there isnt that much socializing happening around here

        • jjagaimo@lemmy.ca
          7·
          3 months ago

          One thing I’m not a fan of is the argument that “it is what you make of it,” because platforms act entirely differently depending on the other users, the algorithms, methods of interaction, interface, content and culture. Its very difficult for me to to have a good time on facebook because it fails in a lot of those aspects: toxic users, algorithms tbat push nonsense, a bad interface, incompatible content and culture. The general theme is that many social media sites end up being very polarizing and echo chambery.

    • edryd@lemmy.world
      23·
      3 months ago

      Envy has existed far longer than social media, none of these things would go away if social media doesn’t exist. Social media just amplifies it.

      Comparison has always been the thief of joy.

      • kex@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yep, “keeping up with the Jones’s” was a phrase I heard growing up in the 1980s

        Also, attachment leads to suffering

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      3 months ago

      Communication is a good thing.

      But that’s not what most social media facilitates. The mainstream platforms were about staying in touch with friends and family, once, but now they are about parasocial celebrity worship and broadcasting your life in a fake light of endless positivity. All the while secretly hating the habit of feigned contentment, never realising everyone else is doing the same.

      Social media could be about sharing our passions, forming real and meaningful connections with other individuals around the world, as well as truly coming to know ourselves as a species on a global scale.

      Some small parts of it are exactly that.

      Those are the parts I’m trying to perpetuate and nurture, and though they are a tiny part of the whole thing right now, it does mean it isn’t all bad.

  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
    973·
    3 months ago

    I think this lesson can be valuable but I also feel like it can be flippant to the point of implying everyone’s situation is equally bad or good, which is very dismissive of those in truly bad positions in life.

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      191·
      3 months ago

      especially since this comic includes a poor dude and it goes like “at least his dog is still alive”, bruh

    • Microw@lemm.ee
      4·
      3 months ago

      Judging what a bad position in life is is pretty subjective.

      There are some we can probably all agree on as a bad position, but none of those portrayed here fit those.

  • yumpsuit@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    sobbing over my phone because I couldn’t stop a friend from pairing full-bodied red wine with lobster

  • BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io
    342·
    3 months ago

    This is like that other comic about ‘girls only like guys who treat them right’ (i dunno the name) but actually good.