Hi all. So I made:
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.
What kind of news gets posted here? I’m still trying to keep my feed clear of depressing things, and “wildfire claims lives” or “murder happened,” while nonpolitical, is still essentially blared at me 24/7 in the rest of my life. However I do appreciate this idea!
Also, have you posted to !newcommunities@lemmy.world yet?
Yeah. There’s also !upliftingnews@lemmy.world and !hopeposting@lemmy.world, although to me those are a little rah-rah. I agree with you about the value of a place that specifically has politics excluded. Personally, I love politics even when it is upsetting, but I see the worthwhileness of having a US news community that is separated from it. I imagined it being anything at all that is US news, whether good or bad, just what’s going on irrespective of the government or political-warring issues.
I’ll plan to post to !newcommunities@lemmy.world once it has a little more content and the nature of the proposed community is ironed out a little better, yes, definitely.