• btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Geez I can’t believe a major group was nuked just like that. I never noticed anything about it being unmoderated but thank you for providing the explanation.

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Central planning committee knows what’s best now eat your slop or it’s the gulag for you /s

      • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Geez even with decentralization we still have people making bone headed decisions. What is the best/strongest politics group that is not lemmy.ml nor lemmy.world?

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          !Pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net might interest you. It’s an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.

        • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:

          !politics@hexbear.net
          !politics@beehaw.org
          !usa@midwest.social
          !worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
          !geopolitics@lemmy.run
          !politics@sh.itjust.works

          [Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]

          • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Thanks for the list!

            I’ve heard bad things about hexbear and beehaw. But I looked at these other two.

            !politics@sh.itjust.works – unfortunately too many dumb restrictions.

            Rule: Title must match the article headline <-- definitely a deal killer because often journalists use dumb headlines or leave the most important things out of the headline.

            Rule Recent (Past 30 Days) <-- also a deal killer. Relevant is more important the recent. They are not the same things. “Recent” is only an imperfect proxy for “relevant”.

            usa@midwest.social – We have a winner!

            Rule: Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech. <-- perfect

            I would also welcome suggestions for “news” groups outside of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. usnews@lemy.lol is okay so far but I’m always looking for possible alternatives.