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I really like this idea, and have long thought of doing something similar, the reason being that most/all existing services that I've come across so far don't d
by stareatgoats 8y ago
I really like this idea, and have long thought of doing something similar, the reason being that most/all existing services that I've come across so far don't do a good job at it. They can actually be even more depressing than normal news (to me).
One reason reason is that the "positive news" are often reported against something really depressing, don't point to sustainable solutions and so defeats the purpose. In essence I believe "positive news" must either turn a slightly blind eye to the vast number of problems facing humanity (without being essentially just pictures of cats), or mainly bring up such problems if a true solution has been found (not "eating more raisins may reduce cancers in mice").
If this problem could be solved (by heavy manual curation?) I believe a service like this could actually take off.
- arethuza 8y agoHow do you handle new stories that some people find positive and others find negative?
- stareatgoats 8y agoGo for very general values (they exist), and have one or several specific target audiences.
- humanetech 8y agoI have been thinking about this too, and posed an idea some time ago, to the Humane Tech Community [0], named "Turning the Weapon Around" [1]. The gist is to use our existing social media channels, that generally - through their algorithms - reinforce negative sentiments and divisiveness (because that keeps us engaged best, as Max Stossel explains very well in his recent Medium article [2]) to create a network of people that do the opposite: Post, share, like and comment on positive news. This would work best if it were supported by an app that faciliates this. Our community is thinking about such app, a decentralized one, which we'll use for our crowdsourced Humane Tech Awareness program. [0] https://community.humanetech.com https://community.humanetech.com [1] https://community.humanetech.com/t/idea-turning-the-weapon-around-raising-awareness/423 https://community.humanetech.com/t/idea-turning-the-weapon-a... [2] https://medium.com/@maxstossel/how-everyone-lost-their-mind-e1cede28a30 https://medium.com/@maxstossel/how-everyone-lost-their-mind-...
- stareatgoats 8y agoHey that's really cool! Thanks for the link to Humane Tech Community, looks promising and will definitely check it out. Good luck!