• btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Geez even with decentralization we still have people making bone headed decisions. What is the best/strongest politics group that is not lemmy.ml nor lemmy.world?

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      !Pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net might interest you. It’s an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:

      !politics@hexbear.net
      !politics@beehaw.org
      !usa@midwest.social
      !worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
      !geopolitics@lemmy.run
      !politics@sh.itjust.works

      [Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]

      • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Beehaw has a fairly active politics comm, their moderation is more on the strict side but it’s “hey be nice and dont use slurs” kind of strict and not “how dare you say Russia is bad, banned” kind of strict. Id recommend them. Otherwise it’s .world.

      !politics@beehaw.org