I'm so excited to be the new top mod of this community. I've been a part of this community since the beginning, and I've seen how much it's grown and evolved. I'm grateful to the previous top mod for creating this space, and I'm honored to be taking over.
On Twitter, I'm @CantStopPoppin, and on Reddit, I'm u/CantStopPoppin. I've been active on both platforms for over 5 years, and I've always been a strong advocate for diversity, inclusion, and quality content.
I'm planning to make a few slight changes to the community, but I want to get your input first. I want this to be a place where everyone feels welcome, regardless of their background or beliefs. That means that hate speech, racism, anti-LGBTQ+, and trolling will not be tolerated.
I believe that our differences make us stronger together. We can learn from each other and create something truly special. I'm committed to listening to the community and working together to make this happen.
I'll be leaving this post unlocked for 72 hours so that you can share your thoughts and suggestions. I'll also be going through the comments to answer any questions you may have.
Here are a few specific things I'm thinking about changing:
I'd like to make the community more welcoming to people from all walks of life. This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities.
I'd like to make the community more focused on quality content. This means promoting posts that are well-written, informative, and thought-provoking.
I'd like to make the community more active. This means encouraging people to participate in discussions and share their thoughts and ideas.
I'm open to other suggestions, so please let me know what you think. I'm excited to work with you to make this community even better!
A few things to note:
YouTube and Twitter will not be allowed in the community. Only legitimate news sources will be accepted.
There may be a "Pundit Tuesday" in the future, but not at this time.
Fox News local stations will be allowed, but their syndicated stations and talking heads will not be accepted due to their many dishonest reports and lawsuits.
I'm excited to hear your thoughts!
Thank you again for helping to create, nurture, and seed this community. I'm looking forward to working with you to make it even better!
This post will stay unlocked for 72 hours for an AMA. I will try to answer as many questions as I can, but it may take some time.
Please don't turn this into r/worldnews. I'm all for keeping out hate speech but r/worldnews turned into a thought bubble that demonized any opposing ideas that didn't mesh with the mods.
I meaaaaan I just want world news... With less USA stuff. Every world news sublemmy is 1/2 USA/China/Israel, 1/3 Ukraine/Russia/Turkey and the rest is usually about other oppressive regimes.
I don't quite understand what's about lgbtq+... If there's news, it's news, if there's not, it's not...
I dunno, maybe I should just stop followings any news apart from uplifting ones, because otherwise it's all the same depressing planet. Wars and hunger and collapse and idiots running/ruining everything.
This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities.
What rule changes or moderation styles are you planning in order to do this? In some cases it's a tight-rope walk, because it's important to both do things like ban or warn those engaging in islamophobia while also making sure that forms of Islam that are intolerant towards LGBTQ communities are not able to use their religion as an excuse. Thanks for doing this AMA, I think openness from the mods is really good for community relations.
Thanks for all the work. Your intent appears generally good, imo. Always good to have honest normal discussions and exchanging culture and viewpoints.
I also have a couple of questions for consideration:
How will this statement:
"That means that hate speech, racism, anti-LGBTQ+, and trolling will not be tolerated."
work out with fox news?
Also fox is not then only (non unbiased) mainstream news outlet, which might conflict with your intended goal.
And, what about spreading intentional mis- or disinformation ?
I’d like to make the community more focused on quality content. This means promoting posts that are well-written, informative, and thought-provoking. - what does this mean who is writing posts here?
I’d like to make the community more welcoming to people from all walks of life. This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities. - was it not before?
Currently, it is "No spamming: Please do not post the same content multiple times or post links to irrelevant websites." yet I was banned for posting too many different articles in too short of a time period.
Thanks for the openness and desire to improve an important community on the fediverse.
For the AMA part: You're such a good person. how did you become such a good person?
Jesus. So it's between the tankies bullshit from lemmy.ml and this.
My suggestion: let's focus less on the way people fuck, how fast they tan, or which vengeful god they worship, and more on discussing world events.
For example by not burying all the information related to the ukraine war in a megathread
Could we also possibly have something where we can see "the weight of media bias" like with an app like Ground New? It would be neat to be able to be factual as well as inclusive. What does everyone else think of that?
Yeah ok I can understand Demoding me because you don't like my ideology or instance (not to mention the hordes of liberals screaming "TANKIE") but removing my comments that abide by the rules without a reason is just authoritarian
I think that starting from the beginning on Lemmy is a great opportunity to make news communities make more sense.
Specifically, !worldnews should not exist.
It is a relic from Reddit that implies that !news is not for all news but just for news from some part of the world.
In my opinion, there should be effort put into making this community as inactive as possible. As that would be the result of people posting news from all over the world in !news.
It would be great if there could be some discussion of what exactly "diversity" means. It's one of those words that people seem to assume is well defined but I can't get anyone to define it.
I don't know what the definition should be but I've seen variations that assume different definitions and I'm more comfortable with some than with others.
I have a friend who works at a bank. He bragged that his team was 100% diverse. When I asked him what that mean he said there were no white people on his team. Personally, this seems like a bad definition. I have trouble thinking of "diversity" as the removal of some group, even if that group is otherwise over-represented elsewhere. It also ignores any potential diversity around any other factors; either the traditional political factors such as gender or religion or any diversity of thought (do their analysts include both Frequentists and Baysians?)
The above focuses on race but it's more widely applicable. This community will most likely consists of mostly US citizens for the near future. If the community is firmly focused on US ideas it will be more about US opinion of the rest of the world than actual diversity. If it actually does include a globally diverse set of ideas it's likely to get pretty uncomfortable for the majority of the people here.
How will you address the Sinophobia and Russophobia that often occurs in any post related to Russia or China?
When a user drives by to comment "Fuck Russia" or call the user a "Cee Cee Pee shill" that adds nothing to the discussion and actively detracts from it not only by diminishing the quality of the discussion but also by dissuading any Russian or Chinese people from participating in a community that does not address racism.