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How to get a bit more positivity in the Lemmy feed ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by red_pigeon@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I know a lot of shitty things are happening in the world right now. But I get this feeling that most of the posts I see in lemmy feed are sad or depressing.

Are there any uplifting communities that I'm missing out on ?

Edit1: Thanks for the suggestions everyone

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[โ€“] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Art communities are usually encouraging

[โ€“] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks. Any suggestions in particular ?

[โ€“] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Haha. I moderate !watercolor@lemmy.ml

But there's a great one called art share. Another is traditional art.

There's some great communities

[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

!artporn@lemm.ee. This one has a rather prolific mod, craftyindividual, who not only single-handedly keeps up the community but also posts a large variety of artwork.

[โ€“] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cats are all the rage on Lemmy at the moment

[โ€“] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

Come back tomorrow when the Caturday crowd is around, and Cat Lemmy will be poppin' off.

[โ€“] The_Che_Banana 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Move over to beehaw.org, way less ragebait and much more positivity.

[โ€“] Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 points 4 months ago

I think the disabling of downvotes on Beehaw and similar instances really helps. It reduces the pile-on effect, which in turn makes people less defensive and more open to proper, good faith discussion. In general I think the solution is to not find "uplifting" communities, but rather to replace whatever communities you're currently visiting with better equivalents. The world is not as depressing and scary when the people you're talking to about these big issues are genuine and/or educated (and by educated I just mean "took the time to read the article before commenting").

[โ€“] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

I'm torn between curating what I subscribe to here to eliminate overly negative things, with wanting to stay in the know specific industry topics and about important world events.

Unfortunately most of the important world events are negative. And my industry is a disgusting race to the bottom of the consumer exploitation barrel.

So on some days I just try to not open specific types of posts if I know it's just going to get me down. I stick to memes and comics on those days

[โ€“] the_mullet@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Follow my community mullets@lemmy.ca !

[โ€“] Deebster@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You've missed off the ! so Voyager thinks it's an email address.

!mullets@lemmy.ca

[โ€“] the_mullet@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Oh THAT'S how you link a community! I still hadn't figured it out yet.

Thank you!!! ๐Ÿ˜Š