Hi all. So I made:

!usa@ponder.cat

The thinking is that there isn’t a good home for non-political US news on Lemmy. There are three obvious communities, but one is on lemmy.world, one is defederated from lemmy.world, and one is on an instance that I find just slightly off-putting.

My questions are two:

  • Is this useful? I assume I’m not the only one who feels like this is needed.
  • How do people feel about a news+politics community, versus a strictly non-political news community? There are plenty of good places for US politics. I could go either way, but personally I tend to like the news+politics combination, and I think a lot of the big news in the US for the next few years is going to be political.

Let me know your thoughts, have a good weekend.

  • nickEnglish
    4·
    23 hours ago

    Which instance is offputting, mine? Or is mine defederated?

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
      4·
      23 hours ago

      Correct. It’s nothing I can even put my finger on, I just don’t like it somehow. It seems fine, none of the weirdness seems to impact !usa@midwest.social, but it bothers me.

      I looked up Blaze’s citation and that’s exactly what I mean. I don’t even know how to categorize it, but it’s clearly wrong.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      Fwiw the drama surrounding your instance has nothing to do with the users (afaik?), just the admin, as demonstrated by the links from the post that Blaze shared.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
        5·
        21 hours ago

        Completely agree. I think about 99% of the users on Lemmy are fine, decent people and I’ve got nothing negative to say about them. Likewise for midwest.social in case that wasn’t clear. There’s just something weird about the admin team.

        The instance is all “ope” “we like corn dogs” “midwest friendly people yay” and then sometimes someone will get banned for not wanting to advocate violence and that exact same admin will say “libbity lib lib” about it and celebrate “violence against the rich.” Something’s off.