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Why are geographic communities always negative? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world to c/eli5@lemmy.world

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Why is it that no matter where in the world, what country or what the apparent topic is, literally every geographically specific community on Lemmy , just like every geographic specific sub on Reddit, is negative. Literally every story is about something horrible, awful, sad or enraging, never anything positive for anything geographic beyond a national level and rarely even then?

Why is this with geographic communities and not others?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because bad news sells.

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What this one said. Humans have a negativity bias. It's just how we're wired.