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[Meta] Is this just a news community now? (lemmy.today)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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I made a comment to this effect the other day. Scrolling through this community, out of about the 10 most recent posts, I see one that is borderline oniony and the rest are just straight up news, mostly US politics-related.

Is this OK? Is this what this community is for? I ask because I want to see can't-believe-it's-real headlines, but if this is going to be another doom scroll bad news sub I'm going to leave and look elsewhere. Just curious to hear people's feelings on this before I do.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If you report ones that are just news they do seem to be taken down though.

A big issue is about half of everything trump says could easily be the onion. Which is likely why there's so many political ones.

One of the states said people don't have the right to vote. That sounds insanely oniony.

There was one about 40% of family homes being owned by corperations. Again that could easily be an exaggerated and ridiculous thing.

So I think there's some personal interpretation.

[–] jeffw 6 points 6 months ago

This is why probably 2/3rds of what I post on here is politics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

A big issue is about half of everything trump says could easily be the onion. Which is likely why there’s so many political ones.

It's also an election year, in which Trump was tried for shenanigans, which will lead to a lot more news stories than usual where you read the headline and wonder if this is satire or not. Things will return back to a more even stream of content but US politics is especially odd at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think that's a fair interpretation though I definitely feel differently. I guess for me not the onion on Reddit was something I looked to for comedy, and so far the Lemmy version has been mostly depressing. That's why I think it may just not be my cup of tea over here anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is at least one bot dragging over NTO from the other place and it does tend to have less political content: [email protected] I suppose it falls to the users here to post more of what they think fits and report what they feel doesn't. We can help define the remit of this place if we feel it is going down the wrong track.

It also depends in what you are looking for - there are other weird news communities on Lemmy, I've tried to list them in the sidebar at [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up! Joined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's still a bit of a mix but then it can be subjective but it's another source of NOT news and we have to curate our own feeds.