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[Meta] Is this just a news community now? (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a comment to this effect the other day. Scrolling through this community, out of about the 10 most recent posts, I see one that is borderline oniony and the rest are just straight up news, mostly US politics-related.

Is this OK? Is this what this community is for? I ask because I want to see can't-believe-it's-real headlines, but if this is going to be another doom scroll bad news sub I'm going to leave and look elsewhere. Just curious to hear people's feelings on this before I do.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you report ones that are just news they do seem to be taken down though.

A big issue is about half of everything trump says could easily be the onion. Which is likely why there's so many political ones.

One of the states said people don't have the right to vote. That sounds insanely oniony.

There was one about 40% of family homes being owned by corperations. Again that could easily be an exaggerated and ridiculous thing.

So I think there's some personal interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is why probably 2/3rds of what I post on here is politics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I think that's a fair interpretation though I definitely feel differently. I guess for me not the onion on Reddit was something I looked to for comedy, and so far the Lemmy version has been mostly depressing. That's why I think it may just not be my cup of tea over here anymore.