Comment on What gives you hope to keep going?

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is a theory that natural human psychology wasn’t made to handle all of the world’s atrocities. People experience a “bad news burnout” because some of us constantly feel disappointed in humans as a race by hearing/seeing sociopathic behavior on an international level every day.

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  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think I just hit that wall. This thread is fucking depressing. There’s happiness and hope out there, but it seems you won’t find it on social media, I guess. Negativity bias seems more prevalent on Lemmy than others.

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    • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a reason why it’s common for people to occasionally want to camp out in the middle of nowhere with no technology for a bit. If I read about some horrible news like a grandma getting shot picking olives on her own land I try to follow it up with something more lighthearted, like eating pickled ginger as a pallette cleanser between sushi.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Negativity drives more clicks so therefore is more profitable for reporting KPI.

      I block any C that is news, local regional things, political, or US centric. That seems to kill off most negatively in a platform.

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      • NineMileTower@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think that is a lot of what perpetuates doom. Eyes = $$$$

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• NineMileTower@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this social media?

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not by my definition. I don’t friend people or follow people on here.

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