• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Central planning committee knows what’s best now eat your slop or it’s the gulag for you /s

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Geez even with decentralization we still have people making bone headed decisions. What is the best/strongest politics group that is not lemmy.ml nor lemmy.world?

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        !Pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net might interest you. It’s an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.

      • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:

        !politics@hexbear.net
        !politics@beehaw.org
        !usa@midwest.social
        !worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
        !geopolitics@lemmy.run
        !politics@sh.itjust.works

        [Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Thanks for the list!

          I’ve heard bad things about hexbear and beehaw. But I looked at these other two.

          !politics@sh.itjust.works – unfortunately too many dumb restrictions.

          Rule: Title must match the article headline <-- definitely a deal killer because often journalists use dumb headlines or leave the most important things out of the headline.

          Rule Recent (Past 30 Days) <-- also a deal killer. Relevant is more important the recent. They are not the same things. “Recent” is only an imperfect proxy for “relevant”.

          usa@midwest.social – We have a winner!

          Rule: Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech. <-- perfect

          I would also welcome suggestions for “news” groups outside of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. usnews@lemy.lol is okay so far but I’m always looking for possible alternatives.