World News

This post kind of looks like a corporate e-mail from a freshly hired executive.

Please don't turn this into r/worldnews. I'm all for keeping out hate speech but r/worldnews turned into a thought bubble that demonized any opposing ideas that didn't mesh with the mods.

I don't want another echochamber

I meaaaaan I just want world news... With less USA stuff. Every world news sublemmy is 1/2 USA/China/Israel, 1/3 Ukraine/Russia/Turkey and the rest is usually about other oppressive regimes.

I don't quite understand what's about lgbtq+... If there's news, it's news, if there's not, it's not...

I dunno, maybe I should just stop followings any news apart from uplifting ones, because otherwise it's all the same depressing planet. Wars and hunger and collapse and idiots running/ruining everything.

Can you also provide an explanation on why the previous top mod, sabbah@lemmy.world, has been re-added to the mod team?

This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities.

What rule changes or moderation styles are you planning in order to do this? In some cases it's a tight-rope walk, because it's important to both do things like ban or warn those engaging in islamophobia while also making sure that forms of Islam that are intolerant towards LGBTQ communities are not able to use their religion as an excuse. Thanks for doing this AMA, I think openness from the mods is really good for community relations.

Have you thought about coordinating with the other internationally-focused news communities in the fediverse?

What's your criteria for "legitimate news sources"?

I’d like to make the community more focused on quality content. This means promoting posts that are well-written, informative, and thought-provoking. - what does this mean who is writing posts here?

I’d like to make the community more welcoming to people from all walks of life. This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities. - was it not before?

Thanks for all the work. Your intent appears generally good, imo. Always good to have honest normal discussions and exchanging culture and viewpoints.

I also have a couple of questions for consideration:

How will this statement:

"That means that hate speech, racism, anti-LGBTQ+, and trolling will not be tolerated."

work out with fox news?

Also fox is not then only (non unbiased) mainstream news outlet, which might conflict with your intended goal. And, what about spreading intentional mis- or disinformation ?

What would be the one thing on the sidebar you will change?

Could we also possibly have something where we can see "the weight of media bias" like with an app like Ground New? It would be neat to be able to be factual as well as inclusive. What does everyone else think of that?

It would be great if there could be some discussion of what exactly "diversity" means. It's one of those words that people seem to assume is well defined but I can't get anyone to define it.

I don't know what the definition should be but I've seen variations that assume different definitions and I'm more comfortable with some than with others.

1. I have a friend who works at a bank. He bragged that his team was 100% diverse. When I asked him what that mean he said there were no white people on his team. Personally, this seems like a bad definition. I have trouble thinking of "diversity" as the removal of some group, even if that group is otherwise over-represented elsewhere. It also ignores any potential diversity around any other factors; either the traditional political factors such as gender or religion or any diversity of thought (do their analysts include both Frequentists and Baysians?)

2. Reddit mostly has users from the US. Should we consider a Lemmy community diverse if it represents the predominant views and voices of the US? If that's the case the image above needs more white people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity

3. The world is a big place and anyone could join Lemmy. Should we consider a community diverse if it matches the demographics of the planet? In that case the image above has too many white people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Global_demographics

The above focuses on race but it's more widely applicable. This community will most likely consists of mostly US citizens for the near future. If the community is firmly focused on US ideas it will be more about US opinion of the rest of the world than actual diversity. If it actually does include a globally diverse set of ideas it's likely to get pretty uncomfortable for the majority of the people here.

As @neuromancer@lemmy.world suggested would you be willing to ban opinion/editorial pieces?

Also, can you clarify the no spam rule?

Currently, it is "No spamming: Please do not post the same content multiple times or post links to irrelevant websites." yet I was banned for posting too many different articles in too short of a time period.

Thanks for the openness and desire to improve an important community on the fediverse.

🌍👋