I ask, because I’ve been seeing a lot of content on this community make it to all that I would not consider “mildly infuriating.”
Back when “r/mildlyinfuriating” first emerged in the early 2010s, it was at least in past a humor sub: a place for OP and commenters to commiserate and/or chuckle at something relatively minor (the “mildly” part of “mildly infuriating”), usually something that involved or happened to OP directly. Post content was often comprised of things that were disproportionately upsetting, such as dropping your toothbrush in the toilet, or that felt ironic, such as spending three hours preparing a fancy cake recipe just to have the power go out right as you put it in the oven. Neither of these are actually that bad in the grand scheme of things (hence, mildly), but in the moment they make you want to tear your hair out (hence, infuriating). Of course as with all things Reddit, the community eventually lost its original purpose and morphed into a catch-all for “stuff that made me mad,” but I always appreciated the original spirit of the sub.
Which brings us to lemmy.world’s mildly infuriating community. I checked the sidebar, which reads:
Home to all things “Mildly Infuriating” Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that. I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined.
To me, it seems like the intention here is to be a mirror of the Reddit sub, presumably the Reddit of old and not the current mess of a platform we abandoned. Yet when I sorted this Lemmy community by “top month,” I would consider only about a quarter of the 20 top posts to be mildly infuriating by either the original sub’s initial intention or this community’s current sidebar definition. The remaining ~75% of posts were the typical assortment of tech enshittification and horrifying political news that you could expect to find in any politics/news/technology community, which I would consider not only enraging instead of mildly infuriating, but also not unique or providing novel content to the lemmyverse. Which poses the question, what is the point of this community?
(Ido not mean to call anyone out specifically, but for the sake of clarity, here are two example posts that I counted towards being mildly infuriating, and two example posts that I did not.)
Are we okay with the “mildly infuriating” community becoming a “news that really upset me” community?
I attribute it primarily to the issue every voting aggregator platform has.
Most people don’t go into the community specifically, and browse that content, and then vote on it in the context of that community. Most people see the posts in their feed of mixed communities and content.
I totally agree on all counts. Would love to see more actually mildly infuriating posts here. Leave the heavy actually infuriating posts for the other com
I remember having made 3 reports of some news-related articles that got posted here on another account because they didn’t belong.
And guess what? Those reports were shot down and the posts remained. So some mod here seems to believe that it’s okay to try and turn this instance into yet another news-related outlet, not like we have several dozen of them already.
Are we okay with the “mildly infuriating” community becoming a “news that really upset me” community?
Note that Reddit’s /r/MildlyInfuriating spawned /r/ActuallyInfuriating for stuff that is more severe.
Searching on lemmyverse.net shows that we do have an /r/ActuallyInfuriating analog at !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world.
Maybe the community mods might consider putting it in the sidebar? @Aer@lemmy.world, @Striker@lemmy.world, @Tenthrow@lemmy.world?
I dont think Ive ever seen a post on mildlyinfurating that wasnt scorched earth, everyone dies, fucking mega mental infuriating. Its right up there with aita and all its “So I reported the guy who raped me to the police. Some friends are saying I did the right thing, but some family are saying I should have just worked it out. Am I the asshole?” posts.
There’s even politically-related and news-related posts there too!
Some people just simply don’t care and refuse to actually read that they just contaminate instances with unrelated posts.
It actually is mentioned in the sidebar, though they should make it a hotlink
!actuallyinfuriating
Ah, yeah, thanks, though the community name is incorrect (needs an underscore) and is missing the instance name.
I find it mildly infuriating that people don’t know what kinds of posts are mildly infuriating.
It makes me sad. Because I would like a community and posts that follow the name, and this one specifically.
I subbed to this community but the barrage of political posts makes me want to unsub. I came here for amusingly infuriating posts not a constant reminder of how fucked up politics are (I’m not even in the US)
You may have seen my “I’m gonna repost this comment every time I see this type of submission in this community” comments recently. They received positive responses, but after realizing that this type of content is most of the community, I decided a full post would be more productive to the conversation and feel less passive-aggressive.
I completely agree with your four examples.
It’s annoying. Like, sure, if they really, really want to stretch the definition of what counts as “mildly infuriating”, they can. I don’t think we will ever come to a concrete definition of it. But that just invalidates the whole point of having communities. I would expect more or less “this sucks, but I can live with that” kind of contents, but certainly not “someone wrongfully jailed” or something like that.
Remniscent of old vsauce
