Good News UK

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Welcome to Good News UK! This community exists to try and offset some of the doom-and-gloom on Lemmy in a healthy way.

More information will be added soon.

What can be posted in Good News UK?

Currently we are still figuring out what classifies as "good news" in this community, so for now feel free to post whatever you think qualifies as good news so long as it doesn't break the instance/community rules.

Our only requirement at the moment is that posts are UK-specific.

What if I think a post isn't Good News?

Good News UK is intended to be a community of nuanced discussion and education moreso than a community for excessive unfounded optimism.

Most good news comes with some elements of bad news or things that can be done better. We request that you post mindful and detailed challenges on the post itself in these cases if it doesn't otherwise break the instance/community rules.

Low-effort, unproductive, and unhelpful comments which challenge whether or not something classifies as good news are discouraged and such comments may be removed.

Cross-Posting

Cross-posting is allowed. We encourage you to post content in communities such as !nature@feddit.uk and !energy@feddit.uk first and then cross-post here after a few days.

General Instance Rules:

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
Do not spam or abuse network features.

Community Specific Rules:

Keep posts UK-specific.
Keep comments in English so that they can be appropriately moderated.
Do not post low-effort, unproductive, and unhelpful pessimistic comments.
Do not post doomer comments.

Here are some communities to post good news from elsewhere in the world:

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Welcome to Good News UK! What would you like to see posted here? (feddit.uk)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Jho@feddit.uk to c/goodnews@feddit.uk

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Hi everyone! I've been thinking of making this community for a while now and finally decided to go ahead with it today.

I think it would be nice to spread a bit of positive energy. A lot of what is posted on Lemmy is doom and gloom, but it's important to strike a balance between educating oneself about the injustices of the world and celebrating the good that humanity can do.

The main question I have right now is, what counts as good news here on feddit.uk? And are there any particular community rules we should implement?

What is good news to me might be bad news to others. Furthermore, a lot of news can be a bit of a mix of both good and bad. I see a lot of comments in other positive/good news communities which are like "actually this isnt good news because...". I don't think we will ever be able to please everyone, unfortunately.

In the sidebar I think it would be a good idea to explicitly state what topics we want people to post about here.

For example, here are some of my personal picks:

Renewable energy and medical breakthroughs.
Progress in equal rights for people of colour, immigrants, women, LGBT+ folk, or any other minority groups.
Progress in restoring nature and the environment.

And, of course, this community should be for news specific to the UK. Communities exist elsewhere for good news elsewhere in the world.

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