This group was created in response to what is talked bout in this thread.

Explanation

Lemmy has a clear overweight of a far-left-communist community which can be pretty aggressive. This has an effect that a lot of relevant world news gets bogged down and revolve into a discussions about the legitimacy of western media and news.

This group is meant as a companion-piece to the !worldnews community and act as a productive and useful addition to the “lemmyverse” as resource for discovering world news.

You might be concerned about this becoming a echo-chamber, which we are painfully aware and concerned about. We can’t claim to be perfect ideal people or guaranty that this will be a perfect community for world news.

But gosh darn we will try our best!

  • Werwolf
    0•3 years ago

    A community with the only purpose of feeding you with news that you agree with isn’t a good thing, no matter which political view you have

    • @soferman@lemmy.mlOPM
      -1•3 years ago

      It’s for everyone but conspiracy theorists. Those have to be platformed responsibly. Although there is a discussion on what is regarded as a true conspiracy where a group goes together to fulfill a secret agenda and a conspiracy conspiracy.

      • Werwolf
        1•3 years ago

        The about page literally says “for liberal minded people”. That’s excluding a ton of people.

        I’m not communist at all, but I’m not liberal either. I’m anarchist. And believe me, I probably hate authoritarianism more than you. But I don’t agree with a lot of neoliberalism ideas

        • @soferman@lemmy.mlOPM
          0•3 years ago

          this is my meaning of liberal

          “broad-minded especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms”

          I do not call myself a liberal in any context except here on Lemmy lol

          edit:

          I’m still banned from !worldnews@lemmy.ml anyway so I don’t have the normal group to use anyway

          • Werwolf
            2•3 years ago

            Well so you have a misconception of liberalism. Liberals are usually defined as capitalists lib-right people that believe in the free market economic theory. A better term to use would be neoliberal since liberalism was back on the during the 17th and 18th centuries.

            As you can guess, I, as an anarchist, don’t like liberalism at all. Neither does libertarian communists and libertarian socialists that are also non authoritarian believes. So yes, you’re excluding pretty much everyone that isn’t a capitalist (since liberalism and capitalism are strongly bonded)

            • @soferman@lemmy.mlOPM
              0•3 years ago

              I’m not trying to correct you. But liberalism is pretty broad as a definition that is accepted in general culture. You can have your own experience of a certain kind liberalism but you are essentially excluding yourself from a community for ideas and beliefs the group does not push