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This is going to be a long 4 years, so only posts about factual things happening or have happened. (self.politics)

submitted 1 week ago by pelespirit to c/politics

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To clarify: No "this might happen" or "this may happen" or this "could lead to" type posts. I hate having so many today, but it's the aftermath of yesterday.

Also, no Biden or Harris election posts. We are in a new timeline now.

I took over this site so I could post things factually happening and kind of keep track for myself. Please join in if you'd like, but I'm pretty strict about the vibe.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I set up a community called "Keep Track" for just such an occasion:

[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack

[–] pelespirit 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's a great community! Thanks for pointing it out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Both these seem awesome. But I have two controversial opinions on this.

First, I think there are way too many "lone mod hero communities" when there are others trying to do almost the same thing, and I think there should be more collaboration? Like maybe y'all should repost in others subs, selectively, or something.

Apologies if that seems offensive, but I am very touchy about this. I live in a world where too many coding projects, open source and corporate, just reinvent the wheel either because they didn't spot the other project... Or ignore each other for other reasons. The open source space is in desperate need of more integration, and that extends to federated social media.

Second, on your sub's rules @jordanlund, I have many objections to YouTube, but there are many creators on there who (to me) absolutely qualify as verified news sources with all the evidence/citations they show, more than some major websites. Some delivering news you'll find nowhere else simply because it isn't posted in text format. Hence I have... mixed feelings banning YouTube as a source, as I do understand the need to keep the funk away.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The problem with YouTube, and Substack, and, really, any social media is the problem with vetting.

I get it, your channel may be perfectly cromulent, but you know as well as I do that the well of crazy on YouTube goes pretty deep and literally anyone can start a YouTube channel.

Rather than vetting each individal channel, and then getting into arguments of "Buh, buh, you approved THAT ONE, why not MIIIIIIINNNE!" it's just easier from a mod perspective to go "Yeah, no."