While it is certainly true that the world seems to constantly want to enshittify around us - modern news networks have very little incentive to balance that perspective with any actual good news. Their incentive is to keep your eyes on their content for as long as possible - that gets them the most influence and AD money.

And of all the types of News they can show you, it is negative news - or rather ragebait news - that keeps your eyes eyes glued for longest. So guess what they're incentivised to show you most of?

This applies to social media companies too - in fact any company that relies on news to pull you to watch ADs has this incentive, which okky makes the world feel even shittier than it is.

Which is a long way of saying you need to know when to pull yourself back out, appreciate your hobbies and the world around you, because the online world isn't going to do that for you. There's a time and a place to care, but caring about these things you realistically don't have any control over all the time is only going to hurt you more than it inform you.