I've been thinking about it, and one simple rule would make this sub 100% better: No schadenfreude.
We need Freudenfreude!!!
Yes, please!
schadenfreude
i did not know what the word meant, but looked up, and it is essentially no catharsis, and this is something i also proposed in my post asking for help regarding rules for this sub.
Hey, it's related, but not really the same. Schadenfreude means to take pleasure in another person's misfortune. E.g. something bad happens to someone I don't like. I think that almost all political posts I take issue with here fall under that category.
Linked to this community in another comment today, gonna do it once more: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] you're all welcome to subscribe. No political stuff there (⁀ᗢ⁀)
Thanks, subscribed. Shame the name reminds of Futurama's Professor Farnsworth's "good news, everyone!" which was inevitably bad news.
But also a funny reference.
Now that I have a valid replacement time to say good bye to "uplifting" news. Hard agree on the political stuff being annoying. While it's important to acknowledge both negativity and politics, that's not what I come to lemmy for, esprcially on the "uplifting news" board.
i did a post in this community to ask if we should change rules, and got a pretty poor response. in the comments, people said political news can be uplifting, so we have not deleted political stuff. I can not single handedly change the rules
"Misery loves company." The most miserable among us tend to group together and complain together. You heard from the vocal minority that feeds on schadenfreude.
There is a valid point in these people deserving a community (I don't think it should be this one, but still).
I see now how I answered ambiguously, but we're in agreement. The miserable crowd that just wants less shitty news should have space of their own. This instance should be uplifting.
Instance-agnositic link - [email protected]
It's not even complicated. War is not uplifting. Fascism is not uplifting. Pollution is not uplifting. Murder is not uplifting. Famine is not uplifting. Bigotry is not uplifting. Genocide in particular is not uplifting. Not even if the numbers are down a bit (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine etc).
Politics can be. Just read the headline and article/ingress and ask yourself if it's news and if it's about uplifting things or depressing/angering things. Only post if it's uplifting and news.
Imo the comments should also be very aggressively (heh) kept to that same standard if the c is even pretending to actually be uplifting.
Fuck off and 🪫 him already.
Fuck off and battery him? What?
Charge.
the only uplifting trump news would be if he tripped and died
I would accept it if Trump actually went to jail. The 100th post about Trump doing illegal stuff and never getting punished does not really do it for me.
Basically, if you disagree with the moderators about what is appropriate content for a community, it is difficult to find any path forward.
This post is not very uplifting to me.
Perfectly fitting for some of this community's users then...
to improve the spiritual, social, or intellectual condition of
I think seeing fascists taking Ls is uplifting by definition to those who aren't fascists.
TLs
TL possibilities
Clear & uplifting.
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Low power, drain?
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