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extra_specticles t1_j8ntjtv wrote

This is why I unsubbed heaps of news and politics subs. I now view subs like r/mademesmile r/goodnews. In addition I stopped other social media and stopped watching and listening to most tv news. The amount of my feeling down just decreased massively.

More of them:

/r/wholesomememes /r/aww /r/randomkindness /r/examplesofgood /r/HappyCrowds /r/BeforeNAfterAdoption /r/FeelsLikeTheFirstTime /r/PupliftingNews

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NecrisRO OP t1_j8nuisd wrote

My subs are indeed curated to be more positive but somehow someone's twitter hot take screenshot still gets through no matter the sub. And even positive news "girl got out of rubble after 6 days" can sometimes cause anger because you're reminded of the corruption and greed that caused the building to collapse in the first place.

I chosen to do r/all to analyze what people generally see on the platform pushed by algos.

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GreatStateOfSadness t1_j8o89a5 wrote

That's what I've found with so many feel-good subs like /r/upliftingnews. "Child Starts Lemonade Stand to Pay for Classmates' Lunch Debts" is only a small bright light in an otherwise needlessly bleak situation.

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roadtotahoe t1_j8p2ek7 wrote

Yep I unsubbed from that one and mademesmile because the vast majority of the stories are actually terrible and symptoms of a corrupt society.

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TugboatChamp t1_j8p84za wrote

Are you 8? The fact that everything has a price is surprising and upsetting to you huh?

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Yathosse t1_j8pi2ap wrote

Yes? It is indeed upsetting that children have to go into debt to eat.

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TugboatChamp t1_j8pnsrz wrote

This take is so childish and economically illiterate it's difficult to know where to begin. Do you take issue with the fact that parents are the party primarily responsible for providing for their children? Or do you resent the fact that valuable things have value?

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Yathosse t1_j8pqeuw wrote

I do take issue with this but luckily where i live cafeteria food in schools is heavily subsidized and provided for free if you are poor. And yes, i do think a society should not let someone starve merely because they are too poor to afford food and i‘m lucky that‘s not how it works here

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TugboatChamp t1_j8ptbyl wrote

Well we agree on that. In the US school food is heavily subsidized and provided for free if poor. And a kid using some ambition and hard work towards a charitable end is exactly the definition of society not letting someone starve. Although no one starved in the story, nor was there any real danger of that even if this commendable kid hadn't decided to help. So in summary, you get upset when you read a story that perfectly illustrates the type of society you desire to live in? Or does individual motivation and charity bother you instead of it being handled by a cold, inefficient bureaucracy thereby absolving and demotivating individuals to ever elect to act charitably or selflessly? Or possibly it bothers you that there are parents that are so selfish they would shirk their basic responsibilities to provide for their children's basic care? If the latter, then yes, I would agree is disheartening.

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sexy_wash_bucket t1_j8omn3o wrote

Don’t you feel like hiding the depressing subs is just kind of a head in the sand situation though? For me I feel shitty reading bad news, but then I also feel shitty avoiding it. Womp

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kemh t1_j8oomah wrote

For me, it's a mental health issue. I have to "hide my head in the sand" to some extent, otherwise the likelihood increases that I'll finally decide that nothing is worth it anymore.

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Onesie13 t1_j8p7psj wrote

Sure but if you're only viewing sad/bad news from selected subreddits then it's easy to conflate that with the normal or assume it's happening more often and it could just be a rare select one off.

Shouldn't stick your head in the sand but I wish the amount of good/bad news is proportional to what is happening in the real world but sensationalism gets more clicks which also means more hot/top threads.

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extra_specticles t1_j8prbrn wrote

I don't feel shitty stopping having shit things put into my life. I only have one life and a certain number of clicks. I don't want to be wasting them on knobends.

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Fares4422 t1_j8pichh wrote

I clicked on r/mademesmile and the first thing I saw was a man wearing a dress and dancing with a child, unfortunately the majority of big subreddits are full of propaganda

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extra_specticles t1_j8prnfp wrote

not sure if taking the piss and making a really good joke or you're a moron. I'll assume the earlier!

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