To clarify: No “this might happen” or “this may happen” or this “could lead to” type posts. I hate having so many today, but it’s the aftermath of yesterday.
Also, no Biden or Harris election posts. We are in a new timeline now.
I took over this site so I could post things factually happening and kind of keep track for myself. Please join in if you’d like, but I’m pretty strict about the vibe.
I set up a community called “Keep Track” for just such an occasion:
That’s a great community! Thanks for pointing it out.
Both these seem awesome. But I have two controversial opinions on this.
First, I think there are way too many “lone mod hero communities” when there are others trying to do almost the same thing, and I think there should be more collaboration? Like maybe y’all should repost in others subs, selectively, or something.
Apologies if that seems offensive, but I am very touchy about this. I live in a world where too many coding projects, open source and corporate, just reinvent the wheel either because they didn’t spot the other project… Or ignore each other for other reasons. The open source space is in desperate need of more integration, and that extends to federated social media.
Second, on your sub’s rules @jordanlund, I have many objections to YouTube, but there are many creators on there who (to me) absolutely qualify as verified news sources with all the evidence/citations they show, more than some major websites. Some delivering news you’ll find nowhere else simply because it isn’t posted in text format. Hence I have… mixed feelings banning YouTube as a source, as I do understand the need to keep the funk away.
The problem with YouTube, and Substack, and, really, any social media is the problem with vetting.
I get it, your channel may be perfectly cromulent, but you know as well as I do that the well of crazy on YouTube goes pretty deep and literally anyone can start a YouTube channel.
Rather than vetting each individal channel, and then getting into arguments of “Buh, buh, you approved THAT ONE, why not MIIIIIIINNNE!” it’s just easier from a mod perspective to go “Yeah, no.”
Man… Hasn’t been a full day and I’m already so tired of the “What does XYZ mean for the future?” or “Will he really do this and that?”
NOBODY KNOWS!! Just tell me when it’s ACTUALLY HAPPENING!!
Hear hear! Thank you
I hope the world news comms do the same. Keep track and us news (or something like that) should be fine with the what ifs.I was actually wondering if there’s a news outlet that would do that but another extra step: filter what Trump and others say. e.g. the whole Gulf of Mexico/Greenland/Canada BS. I don’t want to read about everything he says because most is just trolling and leads to nothing. And that’s basically what news sources were on the first term. I’d rather read only if/when becomes something real, e.g, “Canada imposes sanctions on US due Trump’s statements of anexing Canada”.
I think it is a little complicated for news outlets not to report on bills being submitted or trump talking about doing something he’s very likely to do. There can be no backlash from anyone if they don’t know about it. My issue is, the pubs put the crap as the top headline and then bury the articles of what’s really going on. I have to dig to find the real stuff.
Most of the top people on the boards for almost every pub is tied to a corporation of some sort. If they’re owned by someone, it’s definitely a billionaire. On the sidebar, there’s a link I did last election cycle and I tried to highlight who the people were tied to.
