For Threadiverse specifically, I blame the laser focus on negativity on here. So often do I come across a comment that makes me think “holy shit, this guy really shouldn’t doomscroll right now”. It doesn’t need to be a political sub either, I find them everywhere. Sometimes I feel like the whole platform was tailor made for doomscrolling. It’s wild, I don’t see it anywhere else where I’ve been.

you can just quietly leave?

And who said I want to leave huh?

I do prefer Lemmy to commercial socials even if I don’t vibe with most people on here.

I avoid it of course. Unfortunately, whenever Fedi drama leads to a defederation, a split of a community or an active user being bullied away from the platform, it comes to my attention when I try to learn why did it happen.

It mostly happens on Mastodon and its’ sisters but I did see some of it on Lemmy too.

It’s not. Reread the comment you replied to. I’m not talking about what happens on bsky at all.

It was primarily from my time on the microblogging side of the Fedi tbh. Although here on Lemmy drama happens a lot too but I avoid getting invested into it. The latest drama I interacted with on here was the whole “defederating from Threads” thing. It made me leave all social media for months lol. Since then I focused on talking about games and stuff on here and never touch any drama again.

Should I only ever talk good things about this place?

Um, okay… thanks for telling me I guess.

I haven’t seen that.

It usually comes up when someone brings up Bluesky. I’ve seen it a lot on the microblogging side of Fedi.

Drama and gossip is fun.

Drama is fun until admins start defederating each other or mods start splitting communities…

Also FOSS just kinda attracts big arrogant personalities

That was my thought also. Communities (in general, not Lemmy-specific meaning) focused on Linux are also often drama-filled. Maybe that’s just how FOSS communities are.

It might be it. The contrasting alternative spaces I have in my mind are mainly focused around hobbies rather than politics leading to less heated atmosphere.

It is my best guess as to why Fediverse is such a drama-filled space despite it’s size. I might be wrong of course.

Ironic, considering the name

In my experience, the best way to ask about unpopular (here, on Lemmy) stuff is to make a post in a generic community. Discoverability sucks here and not many people are on here too so niche communities are often deserted.

So, if you make a post on popular lemmies like this one, you have better chances to receive a helpful response. I’m not sure how the situation with writing communities is, maybe they are active enough to be of use for you!