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Where can I go on lemmy to find things like the video of the recent shooting or other important events that are not just news headlines and memes? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

It wasn't an endorsement of their policies, just a place that the videos you asked about have been popping up.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Got it. What I'm looking for is something like we had in the past. Place where you can post videos, clips or have discussions on current events. Mods seem very different in the past 5 years. Everything is extremely boxed in. For example if I saw a video of Jon Stewart that was giving a great speech, where could I post that here on lemme? I've been in this situation a few times and it looks like I could maybe find a jon Stewart community with 6 people but there isn't really a community to post the random stuff we come across and it's killing a lot of momentum in my mind to get leftist communities up and going.

    One community might be strictly clips only and only clips that are about a narrow subject. Another community is strictly headlines online and about a narrow subject. Another community are meme focused but memes with only skeletons in it. But then there's a community for meme but without skeletons. If you post a skeleton meme, banned. Like this moderation and community-based policing i think seemed like a nice idea to keep it orderly, but i feel we're losing real community and I'm searching for places that get it.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    If you have a vision, make it yourself. That's what we need here anyway.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Yea and I know logically that makes sense. But also it's fucked that we had this a decade ago. It was great. How we lost it so, I'm not sure. Moderation kind of evolved and stole our right to police communities for us. Now it's used on major platforms to push them all to the right and leftist Got fucked by mods

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    I understand your frustration! Unfortunately I don't have an easy answer.

    The culture on Lemmy can cause a fair bit of confusion at first. We have this phenomenon where people migrate here and want to have all the niche communities that existed where they came from without the users required to maintain those places. As a result we have a lot of communities with little to no interaction because it's usually just one or two people contributing. The situation you're describing is a pretty common example of this.

    If you're looking for existing communities you may have better luck finding them on Lemmyverse. If you still don't find the type of place you're looking for, you might consider creating a community for the more generalized content you want to share. If that isn't something you feel comfortable taking on alone, maybe others would be willing to help you run it and keep things active. Lemmy is full of people looking for places to participate!

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