Post by @stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca

2026-10-10 20:34 UTC

Too many communities require news articles In my opinion. It’s fine, but it’s too common in online communities (including Lemmy) and it discourages people from posting their original thoughts or events that they find important and relevant, since something needs to come from a ‘real news source’ or an ‘online article’. I can make a website right now and call it “The Daily Pragmatist” or some shit and people won’t bat an eye. Reality also is that many reach conclusions based on titles alone anyhow. I can’t see how it would be worse, since the body of the post is always going to be a tad more accessible than opening a new website. And we see how little people want to work to gather their knowledge, on the whole. I get removing crappy content, but what about when thoughts are backed up with sources and opinions are relevant to overall discussion? And separately, what’s up with aversion to ‘non-standard’ forms of expression? I would argue that something like the show ‘The Rehearsal’ by Nathan Fielder, is an equally valid way to deliver real and important news to people. I wouldn’t be alone in this sentiment. Imo this shit is busted and dumb. Edit: for those that agree in part or in whole, if you have the bandwidth for it, consider making your own community! Lemmy is still relatively small and your local instance might be even more so. It’s not impossible to get a community going, and if it fails - oh well!

Replies (5)

@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-10-10 23:57

i have no problem with posting news article provided you copy and paste the content or at least summarize what you as the poster thought about it. Like you read and what about it made you want to share it and what insights did you get from it. don’t just hand me a leaflet about a place I could visit though. eff that. im here to interact here and don’t intend to go to those other places on the internet that I avoid.

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@PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2026-10-11 05:21

I feel like if the rules say only articles, then a screenshot of a tweet is breaking the rules. Just sub to different communities if full discourse is what you’re interested in. It’s out there.

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@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2026-10-10 22:43

The comment section is a great place to post your well thought out and sourced opinions. I’d rather read the source up front in the post and then get opinions from strangers in the comments than the other way around.

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@Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 05:17

I got chastised on /news because I posted about an ABC article being censored and removed, because there wasn’t an article about it being censored and removed. I included original links and archive links and articles talking about abc facing ongoing censorship. But no news source had written an article about this particular act of censorship.

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@betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2026-10-10 20:42

Most of the ones with article requirements also have rules about source reliability/reputation so your idea about making a new site to post your thoughts and linking to that wouldn’t work for long.

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