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US-specific news community (ponder.cat)

submitted 1 month ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Hi all. So I made:

!usa@ponder.cat

The thinking is that there isn't a good home for non-political US news on Lemmy. There are three obvious communities, but one is on lemmy.world, one is defederated from lemmy.world, and one is on an instance that I find just slightly off-putting.

My questions are two:

Is this useful? I assume I'm not the only one who feels like this is needed.
How do people feel about a news+politics community, versus a strictly non-political news community? There are plenty of good places for US politics. I could go either way, but personally I tend to like the news+politics combination, and I think a lot of the big news in the US for the next few years is going to be political.

Let me know your thoughts, have a good weekend.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Which instance is offputting, mine? Or is mine defederated?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 1 month ago

Correct. It's nothing I can even put my finger on, I just don't like it somehow. It seems fine, none of the weirdness seems to impact !usa@midwest.social, but it bothers me.

I looked up Blaze's citation and that's exactly what I mean. I don't even know how to categorize it, but it's clearly wrong.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

https://midwest.social/post/20272835

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fwiw the drama surrounding your instance has nothing to do with the users (afaik?), just the admin, as demonstrated by the links from the post that Blaze shared.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Completely agree. I think about 99% of the users on Lemmy are fine, decent people and I've got nothing negative to say about them. Likewise for midwest.social in case that wasn't clear. There's just something weird about the admin team.

The instance is all "ope" "we like corn dogs" "midwest friendly people yay" and then sometimes someone will get banned for not wanting to advocate violence and that exact same admin will say "libbity lib lib" about it and celebrate "violence against the rich." Something's off.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah there was a comment "someone please kill [this person]”, which upon being reported got the reporter banned rather than the poster. And another incident where someone got booted for downvoting a post by the admin. It doesn't sound like a place that I'd enjoy being on. So I gave up on communities located there and support rather alternatives to them elsewhere. Be a part of the change that we want to see in the world and all of that...