• mholiv@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I understand. In this case I would encourage you to exercise that empathy online. Is it worth making others feel worse in order to make yourself feel better? I hope you don’t feel so.

    The world is what we make it. Lemmy is new enough that we are now setting the tone. I want to push Lemmy away from the “leave of legends” style perma salty attitude as much as I can. I encourage others to build positive spaces too.

    • jobby@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      Yeah I hear you. TBH I think it’s because Lemmy is so quiet, sometimes 100% of the time in some communities, that I frequently don’t care what sort of engagement I get as long as it’s something.

      Chasing the dopamine of social interaction I guess.

      I can’t promise to only foster empathy everywhere but I’ll do my best to be cool here.