Sorry to throw this on everyone in the group, but there has been another mod shakeup and it feels fair to address it publicly.

MightBe has been removed as mod from both World News and Politics.

I also unpinned and removed their rule change posts.

The too long; didn’t read is they were pretty hostile in messages to both myself and little cow, and when asked to join back channel discussions in chat, refused, and instead made unilateral decisions without group discussion.

Moderating a group like this needs to be a collaborative experience, no single voice should be establishing rules without some form of common agreement.

They not only refused to engage in that collaboration, but did so in a manner not fitting for being the new person on the team.

And it is a team. I tend to make more public posts than others, because I value the transparency over privacy, but when I do so, it’s a result of a nice private chat among the group.

For now, their rule changes have been removed from both Politics and World News. Back to the stated way of doing business:

World News is for all News OUTSIDE the United States, that’s what the normal “News” is for.

Politics is for US Politics - Somehow I doubt that’s going to be an issue in 2024.

There ARE things the mod team is discussing, and any rule changes will be made as a group effort, and (hopefully!) for the better health of the group and ALL of our participants!

Happy New Year!

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MBFC is bullshit. We have plenty of evidence that most “credible” news papers on there are literally Zionist propaganda outlets. BBC. NYT. WSJ. The list of exposed sites has been insane lately.

If an article clearly shows no journalistic integrity it should be removed. Else the community will filter it by itself.

Also /news posting how Trump is going to “get jailed 100% this time for sure now also he had a new hair transplant” every single day is not news.

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Just a question. News has to be international noteworthy, or any non-US local news are post worthy?

By that I mean that a lot of very region specific news has been posted by what seem to be bots (5-6 news articles posted in less than 1-2 minutes), most of which has no significant impact outside of its very specific area.

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On lemmy.ml we try to make sure that we support news from around the world as a matter of principle. News does not have to be internationally noteworthy to be interesting: for example, Norway’s recent decision to dump waste into fjords is not an international incident, but I still think it’s deserving of being shared.

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In a way, it affects the environment, which is our shared common heritage. It may not affect the World right now, but may affect it in the future.

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All human activity affects the world, and it’s difficult to know what will have long-term impact in the future.

Edit: I, for one, am always excited to see news from other countries. The overreporting on the Anglosphere makes it seem like the Anglosphere is the only part of the world that matters.

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Well, I’m not a mod on News, so I can’t speak to that specifically. IN GENERAL, though…

Stuff that’s PURELY regional? Probably not.

Here are two examples local to me:

Portland has a snow storm, 100,000 people without power.

https://www.kgw.com/article/weather/severe-weather/portland-winter-storm-power-outages/283-0537537d-e61c-4213-a96e-2b71f95f5cad

Great story for the Portland community, I wouldn’t post it to News.

Oregon chooses not to remove Trump from the ballots, waiting on the Supreme Court? Yeah, that’s a bigger story:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-oregon-supreme-court-ballot-eligibility/

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can you please bring back the old background color?

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Sadly, as an app user, I have no idea what the original background color was. I can ask around though!

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Politics is for US Politics

So we use USPolitics for the world politics, then? Is that how it works?

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World News works for news and politics. I just posted up the story on the election in Taiwan.

TBH, I haven’t looked for a World Politics. We might have to create one if politics starts dominating World News.

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I actually made one a few months ago it is linked in the https://lemmy.world/c/politics and https://lemmy.world/c/world sidebar: https://lemmy.world/c/globalpolitics

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Yeah that was weird.

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Gif

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