We do have one but it doesn’t have as much attention even from people on this instance, I included. I understand the idea of using Lemmy.ml community is to spread the world and show reactionaries that there’s a world beyond their tiny window which is not only encompassed by the West. But at the same time is tiring, I like reading the news, that’s how I like to start my morning, but I don’t want to get every day into the same fights because I’m just voicing my opinion, and having to argue against the same arguments over and over again: “China/X country which is bad source so the source is lying”, “capitalist apologia”, “whataboutism”, etc. I’m just not liking it, I love the fact that Lemmy is growing, but it has become a reactionary cesspool. I just would like it very much more if I could just go read the news and either get a true insight or joke with my comrades, and if I feel like it, I go to Lemmy.ml to argue with reactionaries.
Does anyone feel like me? Maybe we could get a bot that cross posts from there to here so that we can get the news without the trash and have it be more active?
I definitely second that, specially if it avoids the usual Northern obsessions like the USA electoralism, Ukraine war and the “Free World” to focus more on the rest of the world in depth. If I may propose some suggestions, there could be a rule where every post needs to have some brief summary/preface of the article written by the poster to make it easier to moderate out liberal spam and unreliable headlines. Right now c/GenZedong is acting as the de facto world news.
I don’t know how I feel about that rule at least in the beginning since what’s more important is to have more activity and people may be put off because of that. You’re right about genzedong acting like worldnews, which makes no sense.
Yeah, might not be a good immediate strict rule but some people over there already seems to be doing something like that either with a comment or a quote. Even as an informal tradition it still helps understand how a Washington Post article is useful despite its Washingtonianness, for instance, and drive discussion. The old reddit analogue kinda focused way too much on bombarding you with headlines but I personally am more in favour of deeper discussions on each thread.