I try to be mindful of my Lemmy image/persona since I try to be supportive and educational here. I don’t have a problem with sharing my personal beliefs, but I try to keep it constructive and not too judgemental.

I’ve spent a lot of time cultivating the community where I spend most of my time posting content to, and I like all the comments people share on a daily basis because it’s a positivity oriented community.

Between things in real life and fighting feelings of burn out here, it’s been a bit tougher to stay motivated. One thing I’ve been noticing more lately, and I’m not sure how to deal with it, and I’m curious how you all deal with it.

If you have regular commenters that you like in your community, but you see them being kinda shitty in other communities, does that affect you?

I know there are stressful things going on just about everywhere, but it’s tough when I see people I look to for positivity in return for my work having bad takes or saying things that make me feel less happy about them.

The broadest recent example is probably the Luigi/United Healthcare assassination. Without getting into a whole thing, I don’t support it the way many have expressed here, but I can empathize with the reasoning behind why Luigi has broad support. But I see people I like saying what I feel are pretty hateful things, and I’m having a hard time separating what they show me of themselves in our positive space with what I’m seeing of them in the general Lemmyverse.

I don’t know if I should just ignore it, but I don’t feel there Is really any ideal way to discuss too much as I don’t want to alienate people from my content. I don’t use any alta as that just seems like too much work, but now I kind of want to avoid people a little bit.

Just curious if any of you go through anything similar and to see how you deal with it.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Sorry for misunderstanding / misremembering your “mod” status but you got the point perfectly regardless: it’s one thing to be the absolute best worker that we can be, though it’s quite another to be put in charge of things. The latter should kinda terrify us tbh, bc one has to balance so extremely very many things.

    I’ve heard it said - and I don’t know enough about the truth of the matter to either verify or contend - that the job of a manager is to say No to things. At a guess I would think it’s far more but perhaps deep down, it’s not? Either way, it highlights how very different the job of someone “in charge” is from us mere plebes. I railed against this thought for my entire life… but now I think I was wrong, all that time. And it is these newer kinds of thoughts then that give me pause when attempting to judge others who display knowledge that I am aware that I lack. e.g. the situation in Gaza is complex as fuck, but I just don’t understand how people think that Trump could possibly in any way help there more than Harris would have - but hey, perhaps the people who scream BoTh SiDeS sAmE the loudest and/or most often must surely be correct? (/s)

    And that’s why I am against joining any kind of “revolution” until and unless I totally understand the issues, bc otherwise it’s the same as the people who showed up on January 6 at the capital of the USA, ready to “defend the constitution”… except that’s NOT what they were doing there AT ALL! But worst of all, they of all people didn’t know themselves why they were there, or what they hoped to accomplish - how can you “defend” something that you refused to read in the first place? Real revolutions take time, and more importantly effort Case in point, if we want to wean off the world’s dependency upon Reddit, then we need to actually make the Fediverse a place that people want to visit. Instead, we choose to remain a Nazi bar. And yeah, that bothers me, though I have little say in the matter. Except when it comes to myself that is, which is why I am commenting here from PieFed, which is not Lemmy at all (and yet the community we are both commenting in is). That more narrow issue I feel like I understand perfectly, so that one I’ve already joined a revolution for:-).