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?

  • Bloops@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yes all the other news communities are borderline unusable. For socialist news discussion, Hexbear’s news megathread is very good, but its news community is a bit inactive in comparison. For a good news community, you need actually engaging discussion, so I would caution against cross-posting for the sake of boosting activity. You will probably just end up with a bunch of barely upvoted posts.

  • savoy@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I pretty much only post news on Lemmygrad communities so I don’t have to deal with reactionaries, which I’m also not online enough take the time to interact with. I do agree that we should build our communities and then crosspost to others to help spread info, but I’ll rely on others for that 😅

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I agree with this. I’m fact, just this morning, I unsubscribed from the main one because I realised I was getting too caught up in silly drama. As you plan, I’ll go over there now and again. But for now, I need to touch some grass or pebbles or the broken bits of glass next to a bus stop outside a nightclub – anything to get outdoors, basically.

    I will also take this opportunity to say I appreciate it when you say, to paraphrase, ‘this is worldnews and you have posted boring US news and nobody cares’.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Did you seen lemmy “politics” community recently? it’s 90% some US tribal politics or internal state shit and it’s full of libs masturbating themselves to this distasteful meaningless theatre.

      • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Oh that’s a problem every online space has to manage with, but purging those who are most terminally online here will probably turn our spaces into ghost towns. So it’s best to seed materialism into those terminally online. So basically for combating the army of terminally online libs, you need an equal amount of terminally online comies. An idiotic and baffling proposition, but I think this might really be the only way to counter the bullshit we find on other instances.