👏🏻

Thank you!

Thank you for that recommendation! I also subscribe to https://www.positive.news/ which has a nice selection of science, environment and human interest items.

Thank you for letting me know about that piefed community! That might just be the place for me 😊

True, but I also see that on posts like these there are comments engaging positively with the post, so some members here are okay with this type of content.

I feel like there’s going to be some fracture of this community either way: one group is going to have to look elsewhere for their uplifting news with or without schadenfreude. As there doesn’t appear to be much active mod presence here the easiest way forward feels like just creating a new community with a “no schadenfreude” rule. It’s a more productive use of my time to actively moderate a new community than it is to constantly report posts here.

I’m up for starting a new one without the “bad things happening to disagreeable people” posts if that’s something you’d be interested in seeing?

Is this community just going to become about schadenfreude? Because if so that’s fine, but it’s not what I’m looking for and I’d rather unsubscribe.

I get all that, but I don’t understand how privilege comes into it.

You’re describing schadenfreude, which I’m not expressing any judgement on. But it’s reasonable for people, including myself, to not find schadenfreude uplifting and to question if an Uplifting News community is the right place for it.

Nobody’s screeching. I wanted to point out that not feeling joy at a potentially fatal misfortune has nothing to do with privilege, which is what I understood your comment to imply.

You’re right, nobody died this time. Good news I guess.

Feeling the hell the planet is becoming doesn’t mean feeling pleasure at the (near) deaths of people.