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

That's wonderful! I subscribed from PieFed and Discuss.Online (someone already beat me to that one) and StarTrek.Website so the communities will appear there for others already. If you do end up making a separate community for US political news & discussions, let us know.

Either way, I suggest adding a link to such a community in the sidebar. That way you aren't just implying that "I don't care where you post your crap so long as it's far away from me" (tongue in cheek obviously😛) and rather guide a potential poster to where they can go to meet their needs (of having something to share and wanting to put it somewhere welcoming to such). That would be helpful.:-)

And speaking of, if you think there is value in directing people also to the !AskUSA@discuss.online community from there, that would be another good addition to the sidebar. And vice versa.

I love the new flag icon, and attribution to its source.

I so very much look forward to what results from this.:-)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thanks for doing that.

I have removed all midwest.social communities from https://piefed.social/topics and added their alternatives (this new communitiy and theonion@shitjustworks) instead.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

That's great! I would also add !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well. That should help - I think of that instance as almost part of the big 3, with the unique exception of it being the admins while the users are mostly not even aware.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you!