If you are willing and able to help moderate this community please reach out in the comments below!
I am EST, other timezones are preferred but not necessary.
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What we’re looking for–
Being a news community, moderating here is essential. Moderation of news preferably requires leaving personal biases aside and allowing otherwise relevant content to stay up even if you disagree with it. Also, posting from less biased sources is always preferred.
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Happy to help. I’ve moderated some smaller niches on the former site that won’t be named. I’m west coast and while I have my personal beliefs, I do try to seek wider input for knowledge and discussion.
Please add me as a moderator, I come from reddit and wish to be recruited
I’m willing to help Mod here
I’ll sign up for modding if spots are still available.
It looks to me like news@beehaw.org is much more active than this community. Is there any benefit from the fragmentation? Why not close this one and redirect it?
As it stands now, Beehaw has defederated from LemmyWorld, so interacting with their news community through this instance means we don’t actually see the majority of the comments and posts. LemmyWorld users can still post and comment, but that content doesn’t get federated to other, non-blocked instances because its only a copy of the “real” community. Fully admit though that I’m still learning Lemmy, so if my understanding of this is incorrect please correct me!
Personally, I would like like to see this news community grow. News is a general and broad enough topic that I think as Lemmy continues to grow, it can support multiple news focused communities. Even if the Beehaw news community continues to be considered “the” news community, there’s room for additional options.
There’s “room” for additional options in the sense that nobody is stopped from making them, but in reality, r/news was my one-stop news update place (all generally interesting news made it there) and it wasn’t too big. For Lemmy to need multiple news communities, its main news community will have to become bigger than Reddit’s. Of course I hope that happens, but it is nowhere near there yet.
That is weird about beehaw defederating and between that and a few other defederation stories I’ve seen, I start to think this federated discussion forum thing might not pan out all that well.
