If you are willing and able to help moderate this community please reach out in the comments below!
I am EST, other timezones are preferred but not necessary.
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What we’re looking for–
Being a news community, moderating here is essential. Moderation of news preferably requires leaving personal biases aside and allowing otherwise relevant content to stay up even if you disagree with it. Also, posting from less biased sources is always preferred.
I’m willing to help Mod here
How many communities do you own, Hurts? Saw several calls for moderators from you. :).
Quite a few (part of the reason I need moderators to join). Most of them don’t have much content, and I generally snagged a bunch to help seed them and get them off the ground. I’ve passed ownership of a couple off already though.
Yeah, I get you. I started four myself and stopped because that’s the most I could reasonably handle. I’m actually thinking of adding mods to one of the ones that is getting pretty busy.
Yeah, if they were all super active communities that I moderate it’d be too much, but most of them have little to no content without me seeding them. I’ve mostly added mods or am now looking for mods in the ones that actually gained some steam, but still I don’t think the load is unreasonable (yet)
If you’re still looking, I would also like to help (:
I’ll sign up for modding if spots are still available.
It looks to me like news@beehaw.org is much more active than this community. Is there any benefit from the fragmentation? Why not close this one and redirect it?
I’m not sure about benefits besides potentially different moderation teams if either of them turns into a bit of a cesspool.
I clicked your link and it didn’t lead me anywhere, however, and I have seen that many times if communities in other instances are not linked correctly, it will log you out when you go there if you’re from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc.
It’s all a bit confusing with the instances and redundant communities, but I suppose the major difference would be that people tend to end up on their own instances community for whatever the topic is.
This worked for me: https://lemmy.world/c/news@beehaw.org
It took me a while to figure out but there are two link buttons under each post. One goes to the local copy and one goes to the hosting instance. That just seems like a UI issue needing tweaking.
Communities are more interesting if they reach a certain size where there are enough posters to cover the significant events in that topic. Reddit’s r/news is huge and the smaller news subs are almost insignificant by comparison. Here, the fragmentation keeps everything small, I think that makes it harder to reproduce Reddit’s success.
As it stands now, Beehaw has defederated from LemmyWorld, so interacting with their news community through this instance means we don’t actually see the majority of the comments and posts. LemmyWorld users can still post and comment, but that content doesn’t get federated to other, non-blocked instances because its only a copy of the “real” community. Fully admit though that I’m still learning Lemmy, so if my understanding of this is incorrect please correct me!
Personally, I would like like to see this news community grow. News is a general and broad enough topic that I think as Lemmy continues to grow, it can support multiple news focused communities. Even if the Beehaw news community continues to be considered “the” news community, there’s room for additional options.
There’s “room” for additional options in the sense that nobody is stopped from making them, but in reality, r/news was my one-stop news update place (all generally interesting news made it there) and it wasn’t too big. For Lemmy to need multiple news communities, its main news community will have to become bigger than Reddit’s. Of course I hope that happens, but it is nowhere near there yet.
That is weird about beehaw defederating and between that and a few other defederation stories I’ve seen, I start to think this federated discussion forum thing might not pan out all that well.
