• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      20·
      2 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
        15·
        2 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
          2·
          2 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
      7·
      2 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·
        2 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
      4·
      2 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
    412·
    2 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
      201·
      2 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
      3·
      2 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
    9·
    2 months ago

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

  • BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io
    1·
    2 months ago

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

  • Zloubida@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    I get the idea and I like it; but please don’t put poverty in this comics. Poor people aren’t envious of richer people, they deserve to live normally.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 months ago

      As someone who was poor and now is not poor, that’s bullshit. I was for sure envious of well-off folks around me. Now I absolutely don’t take it for granted.

      • Zloubida@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        To loose a dog, to be overweight, to see a relationship end are sad but normal things. Poverty isn’t.

        • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          the cops shot their dog. if you are adding in your own back stories then I’ll add mine.

              • Zloubida@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 months ago

                The character is the only one with sunken cheeks; and thinness is a stereotype of poverty; the walls reveal bricks in places, so the house is not properly maintained, another stereotype; the tablecloth follows a fashion, the Vichy, dating from the 30s and associated with the elderly, and the fact of using old and/or outdated clothes/furniture/decor is yet another stereotype. For an image that has few details, that’s a lot.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    45·
    2 months ago

    Unless you’re a republican from South Dakota, then you shoot the dog and dump it in a gravel pit and publicize it so others can be envious of how truly American you are.