[META] Under new management

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So the mod of lefty_news is wanting to host it on a new domain. This has actually been in the works since long before the lemmy.ml defederation, but I am sure having a lot of their core audience be unable to interact with it for two weeks helped motivate him to pull the trigger. Seems understandable.

What I’m going to do is just add myself as a mod for !lefty_news@ibbit.at and keep this one up, for people from outside the lemmy.ml orbit who are already subscribed here. If you want the unfiltered experience from the original creators, go to !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital, that’s the new home for this news as operated by @RedWizard@hexbear.net.

Probably the two will be pretty substantially similar. I think RedWizard is planning to put back some sources that got vetoed because they seemed like obvious propaganda:

  • Caitlin Johnstone 1 2
  • “Council Estate Media” 1

Also, I might also take out SCMP just for volume and quality-of-news reasons, and I’m open to recommendations for anything else to add or remove. But those are a handful of edge cases out of 46 feeds total that make up the thing. The vast majority of stuff in the overlap in our viewpoints as to what is and isn’t “propaganda” will remain, including:

  • Common Dreams
  • The Intercept
  • Novara Media
  • Truthout
  • Democracy Now
  • And so on

Let me know if you have any feedback, anything like that. Cheers and take care.

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@amazingwizard@lemmy.ml I can’t reply directly to your comment because lemmygrad is defederated from everywhere lol

Anyway, makes sense. Yes, councilestatemedia is very bad I think, I am happy if you want to leave it off.

How about Jacobin? I was very curious to go and see how lemmy.ml was reacting to this but I didn’t see any of the Jacobin posts in pravda_news. Was it not in lefty_news before?

(Not really a big deal, I will plan to add it on the lefty_news side because I don’t see it now… I just thought it was weird because I thought it was in there.)

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I thought you had a dedicated Jacobin feed? Maybe I’m missremembering. I don’t agree with Jacobin here about Platner though. It’s like they’ve never heard of lying before, or the idea of being opertunistic. But this is the kind of liberalism they show off regularly.

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I thought you had a dedicated Jacobin feed?

I do. I’ve now added Jacobin to lefty_news, so there is redundant Jacobin in the feed, which I think is fine. I actually might delete the separate Jacobin feed just to keep things marginally cleaner, but it already has 9 whole subscribers, so I guess what’s the harm in keeping it up and letting them be.

I don’t agree with Jacobin here about Platner though.

Yes, I saw. That kind of thing is part of what alarms me about the lemmy.ml hivemind.

It’s like they’ve never heard of lying before, or the idea of being opertunistic.

Well, but it’s not just that. We’ve had tons of his previously secret communications unearthed, and there’s nothing Nazi in them. In fact there is the opposite, he described himself as a communist, had generally left-wing views, yelled at people who were racist and people who cheered for war crimes, that kind of thing.

Then add to that the fact that a lot of the people who are yelling about what a big deal this tattoo is are clearly lying or ignoring reality, and I feel like most people with some critical thinking skills could pick up on what’s going on. But no one as far as I can tell on lemmy.ml is applying any kind of skepticism to this narrative. They all just obediently hate Platner now.

It’s like they’re never heard of lying before.

But this is the kind of liberalism they show off regularly.

Sorry, Jacobin? Fuckin’ what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

I don’t know, man. You can think what you want about the guy. But the eagerness with which lemmy.ml was willing to turn on him just because all the cool kids are turning on him really did surprise and disappoint me.

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