What is the fediverse? Is it a medium to make people lose hope and feel depressed?
Full of passionate people who want to improve the world, I am nonetheless presented every morning with 1,000's of huge problems-getting-worse in every area imaginable that these people project to each other. Problem-awareness is one thing. It is needed. But there's precious little uplifting stuff being shared, and ways on how to be part of the solution.
Timelines that are only doom & gloom serve to wear people out, feel extra deflated as the weight of the world is pushed on their shoulders, and they feel powerless to make a real difference.
This while every minute 2 cents contributed to a solution counts! Share more uplifting things, and how other people can participate. It is important, we already know the world burns.
Fediverse might be a place of cocreation and cross-pollination, where our dreams are slowly realized.
@smallcircles
Agreed, this is a real problem.
It does help to follow hashtags such as #GoodNews and #ShareGoodNewsToo and perhaps someone could curate a Mastodon Collection with accounts focussed on good news or positivity.
We have been toying with adding a Good News channel to our existing channels. It does require some thought, though, especially around the definition of "good news". It's quite subjective so it would need to focus on things over 90% of people would consider good news.