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  • 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.



  • Or are you just saying its too big?

    It’s too big. And it has dumb restrictions like no video content. But also, I had a very popular posting just completely nuked by the mod of politics@lemmy.world and the entire advanced discussion was suddenly lost, forcing me to recreate the discussion on politics@lemmy.ml. Ever since I’ve been posting content to lemmy.ml instead of lemmy.world. Mainly important things missing from politics@lemmy.world or that they took down.

    But aside from all that, we absolutely need redundancy on lemmy for major stuff like news and politics. Mods will abuse their power because they all want to “control the experience” instead of just do the basics. I’ve also had content nuked for no reason on news@lemmy.world also and as a result I mostly use usnews@lemy.lol instead although I’m open for alternate news site suggestions too.



  • We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance.

    Absolutely 1000%

    This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too

    I can’t believe that lemmy mods/admins still think they have the luxury of making bone headed moves in a decentralized network. I am determined to get around this and it is the entire reason I am on a decentralized system. We vote with our feet and in the long term it will all work out. I am looking for suggestions for a politics group that is not lemmy.world and not lemmy.ml.






  • Let’s look at your 3 criteria one by one:

    or internal support

    The regime is definitely illegitimate in eyes of the people, as proven by the fact that most people stayed away from the sham election where their only choices was between archconservatives and reactionaries.

    the context of international relations,

    The US has had no diplomatic relations with Iran since 1979 and does not recognize that regime as legitimate.

    and control.

    Yes they do control people. With torture and murder. But torture and murder is not really viewed as a legitimate way for countries to control their population.



  • He failed to legitimize the government that has been ruling the country since 1979…?

    The monarchy system of the Shah lasted 2500 years. Not sure what the point it.

    You don’t have to support theocracy to recognize the absurdity of claiming that a government that’s been in charge for 50 years, and is recognized around the world, is somehow illegitimate.

    It is illegitimate as a democracy and government that represents its own people. People are protesting the fakeness of the election by not voting.