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 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.