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brucethemoose@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Evidence that lemmy.ml weaponizes rule 1 to censor criticism of russia and chinaEnglish
1·10 days agoI mean, you shouldn’t. “XiJinpingStanAccount” is a glorious handle. I salute you, comrade.
brucethemoose@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Too many communities require news articlesEnglish
1·10 days agoEh. I still (respectfully) disagree.
I think that’s newsworthy; but it should have linked the dev announcement, or GitHub thread, or wherever the information was sourced from.
If /c/technology won’t allow direct posts from developers, that is indeed a problem for /c/technology, as that’s a first party source for topical news.
But to make my position clear:
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If that poster was intended to post without a source, that should be against the rules. It’s how I would moderate /c/technology.
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There are other communities to post that to.
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Hence, I don’t agree that this issue should be generalized. Communities need to straighten out sourcing rules to be more practical, especially to allow topical first party sources, but I don’t think they should loosen sourcing rules.
If Lemmy/Piefed has discoverability issues for small communities or an under moderation issues, I think those are structural, and we should change how the site works to address them.
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brucethemoose@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Too many communities require news articlesEnglish
0·10 days agoI respectfully disagree.
If you want a place to discuss opinions, that’s what comments sections are for. Or communities dedicated to discussion.
But news communities are generally rooted in facts. For current news, that means sourced, methodological journalism. Discussion stems from facts
I can make a website right now and call it “The Daily Pragmatist” or some shit and people won’t bat an eye.
This is one of the worst issues plaguing Lemmy, IMO. People post stuff from outright tabloids, random Tweet screenshots, and those kind of websites Wikipedia will outright reject as a source. This is a huge problem, but it means that communities should be more rigorous about information hygiene, TBH. They need to be stricter about what is allowed as source.
Reality also is that many reach conclusions based on titles alone anyhow.
I hate this too. But to fight it, I think Lemmy needs to steal the “community correction” thing Twitter does, so people would see community consensus right below the headline.
And I am very serious about this. I will die on this hill.
I’m not saying more discussion spaces shouldn’t exist, that’s great; but news communities should be for news.
Honestly… I have gotten close to deleting my Lemmy account and leaving, because the information hygiene is getting as bad as Reddit here. I did not come to Lemmy to engage in conspiracies and misinformation.
And the community feeling the opposite is not making me feel any better. I’ve seen other Reddit clones do down like this.
brucethemoose@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Evidence that lemmy.ml weaponizes rule 1 to censor criticism of russia and chinaEnglish
0·10 days agoIt’s good to have this documented, thanks. It’s one thing for everyone to “know” they’re Tankies, it’s another to have compiled evidence and A/B examples like this to point to.

Isn’t the Aston Martin Valkyrie sorta a homoligation special?
But… yeah. I thought Koenigsegg would do one for sure, given their first car was literally built for GT1.