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

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 month ago
[-] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

Not literally every community. Seattle is a reasonable mix. I'm sure we're not the only ones.

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