Hey everyone, I’m a 21 year old Gen-Z guy and I was wondering if there are any good positive spaces online to socialize.

Because I’m pretty lonely and I feel like the majority of internet places is negative, hateful and racist and as a sensitive person that really worsens my depression.

I tried social apps like Clubhouse and Discord but I feel like most people there are very weird and negative. I wonder how is it that most of the internet is like that. Does that actually make these people happy? For me I noticed that there are people with good/positive energy that make me motivated and people with negative energy that take away my energy and motivation. But maybe I’m the only one feeling like this?

I wonder if there are any online spaces or chatrooms that are positive and have good vibes preferably with more people around my age.

  • FundMECFS
    6·
    7 days ago

    Lemmy.Blahaj.Zone (since it has downvotes disabled) and being mindful of the communities I subscribe to really helps.

    On lemmy.world you won’t see beehaw communities which are much chiller. blahaj lets you see beehaw communities.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        To add to what InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works said, Beehaw has much more strict standards for behavior than Lemmy.World or sh.itjust.works that both prioritize free speech more (the former from a kind of centrist perspective). It’s not that either of those two instances are “bad” per se, just that they are enormous in size and the Beehaw moderation team felt that they could not keep up.

        Beehaw has much less content overall though. But it is worth looking at if you are hoping for a nicer place on the internet.

        Also for people who live in West Virginia, USA, consider dubvee.org, which uses the alternative Lemmy UI “Tesseract”. The admin AdmiralPatrick puts in a ton of effort trying to keep toxic people out, and is a fairly chill dude himself:-).😎

        • FundMECFS
          6·
          7 days ago

          Many is overstating it.

          They defederated from World and Sh.itjust.works.

        • Transtronaut
          1·
          7 days ago

          That explains why you wouldn’t be able to see world from beehaw. But world is still federated with beehaw, so you should still be able to see beehaw from world, right?

          Of course, you wouldn’t be able to interact with anyone there, since they wouldn’t see your posts/comments.

      • FundMECFS
        10·
        7 days ago

        Misandry? I’m a man and feel fine on Blahaj.

        A lot of people on blahaj are feminine men, or transfem, that may make you feel uncomfortable if you’re an old school “men will be men” patriarchal type person, but generally it’s a great crowd to be surrounded by.

        I’ve seen far more misogyny on LW than misandry anywhere on lemmy.