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Be the change you want to see.
Oof, it would be hard to say that out loud with a straight face. But it has some merit.
Most of the posts here are by a small group of people kind enough to repost stuff from their RSS feeds or other aggregators.
Any relevant content is appreciated at this early stage. And only a small percentage of an already small group comment on any platform. As the numbers grow we should see more interaction.
Because of this comment, Im going to comment on every post I see, hopefully I start some conversations... That always entertained me with Reddit reading 2 people talking about some small pointless thing
Agreed, I want the comments, not the links lol
Im going to comment on every post I see
Now I'm picturing your life with a sharpie in hand walking past lamp posts on the street.
What do you think about Taylor Swift not having any Canadian tour dates?
Personally I think it is nothing short of an affront to our Canadian honour, and we should organize a militia to do something about it. I suggest our militia track down her ex boyfriends and start an anti-Swift club.
Even if she did come, she'd just play in Toronto and Montreal anyway. I don't know why the Alberta MP thinks the west would even be worth her while.
I mean, look at how many sold out shows Garth Brooks played at Rogers Place. Midsummer, Swift could sell out Commonwealth multiple nights.
Oh, so isn't bots then? That makes me feel different about it then, haha
You can see who posts stuff and go look at their profiles. There's onlya few posters here right now and they all look pretty human to me.
I'd also like to point out that as of now (with your post being most recent) only 2 of the last 10 posts here are CBC
Hah. Definitely not bots.
Knowing full well that is what a bot would say.
r/canada was 90% National Post opinion pieces and constantly manipulated by right wing bots. This is better.
Agree. The Canada sub was horrible on reddit.
I was permanently banned for a sarcastic comment about Danielle Smith. Delicate neo-fascists.
Yeah, it is nice to think we have a chance to have a "normal" mod team here.
I hope it stays that way. r/canada was a dumpster fire. The mods did nothing about the obvious vote manipulation and bots for years but often removed left leaning comments. I used https://www.reveddit.com/ to see when my comments were removed and often sent a note to the mods at r/canada asking why my comments had been removed and what rule they had broken. The answer that I most often got was, "We don't have to explain it to you."
By not explaining it, sometimes that is the explanation. π¬
Well, the grass is greenest where we water it, so let's keep an eye out for the warning signs we had over there.
Better than the constant NP opinion pieces on /r/canada
I guess if you want to see different sources, post them
I'm convinced they were posted to rile up the comments. They are not even insightful op-eds one can disagree with. Just angry old man yells at cloud drivel. yet to the top they go
It's actually painful to open r/canada up just to see another NP article making nonsense arguments upvoted to the top
Honestly, the conversation in this post is what I was looking for lol. I don't care about the news source.
The only post you've submitted here is this one.... about the CBC.. lol
Perhaps submit non-CBC links? Be the change you want to see.
Yea there just isn't that much content here, so if someone is posting consistently then their stuff will show up more
Just post more of other stuff, or wait it out a bit
Post more stuff you want to read. Simple as
I don't mind reading CBC ... it is more middle of the road concerning most topics and news headlines out there
Sure the corporation has changed compared to what it was 20 30 years ago but it is still fairly middle of the road.
I lean to the left, I'm an NDP supporter, workers rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+ supporter, women's rights and even the rights of the right to express their views .... and I find CBC to be more middle, maybe middle right for my taste
I have my own news feed I follow and CBC is among them all
Unfortunately, the CBC is kinda the only game in town for news media for a lot of Canada.
In Canada it's basically PostMedia, the Thomson family, and CBC. I think the Toronto Star is under different ownership than the rest, but lately The Star has been indistinguishable from PostMedia. And out of those only PostMedia and CBC cover local news stories. PostMedia has cut back on staff so much and are trying to do the Rupert Murdoch thing (so aren't trustworthy).
So that leaves us with the CBC. This is what the death of traditional media looks like I suppose. Only sources of news are either government funded or are grifters. And some like PostMedia are government funded grifters.
Not good to only have government funded media be the only source of news, but there really aren't other viable options.
There are other sources besides the big mainstream ones, such as The Walrus, The Tyee, The Conversation, Rabble, Canadian Dimension, and others I'm probably forgetting.
Yes but how reliable are the other sources? Anyone can easily set up a website and put some articles.
The distrust of "mainstream media" is a paradox. You can't trust a brand new website for reliable information, because it could just be a random person making shit up. But once a site has been around for a while and has built up a reputation, it gets labelled as "mainstream media" and therefore also shouldn't be trusted.
Besides that, a news site has to be fairly large to be able to afford having journalists spending time investigating stories. But opinions are cheap, and that's generally what the indie "news" sites are. Mostly just a collection of opinion columns with little to no stories resulting from investigative journalism. Sure mainstream media is doing a lot of opinion too, because its cheap and makes money, but at least there's going to be some people at a larger organization doing actual journalism.
Be the change you want to see in the world! I've been posting to some less busy subs as much as I can hoping to kickstart them. However if you want more NationalPost, Star, GlobeandMail then hit up those front pages and post the stories you think are interesting to Lemmy!
Exactly! Although asking a question like OP did is also a different post, and got some discussion going. So OP is already being the change they want to see.
I have mine set to New and I see ctv news the globe and mail cbc
Yeah, but still mostly news stories with no comments. I guess I should sort by newest comments.
Ain't much else to talk about with how little people are actually here and sharing news is the best way to keep the sub going.
There is a surprising amount of lurkers based on the upvotes.
90% lurkers is fairly typical.
I'm guilty of this. What discussion exists is nice to see :)