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2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
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4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
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5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
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7. No duplicate posts.
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8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
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Everything of value on Reddit was posted by people who have left
A lot of those people left for here
The content is so repetitive, likely because they drive engagement by reposting content with bot accounts. I still get a major amount of news from there, I can tell it's value is slowly fading
It doesn't feel slow. I still go there for a subreddit or two. It's better at sucking me in than it used to be but the crap that's it's using feels like crap.
Yep I swear askreddit has the same dozen questions on repeat
It’s still good for niches. I am in a couple subs about health conditions, and there are no comparable communities on Lemmy. I haven’t observed the composition or activity level of the groups change at all over the past couple of years.
Bring them here!
I wish I could. It's hard to get a community started on any new site where people have to make accounts and get in the habit of going there. The network effect is tough to overcome, too... people go where other people are, and then those places have content, and most people consume content, not create it. Also Reddit will ban you for promoting Lemmy, even through DMs.
I recently left reddit for lemmy. More so because of the 51st state bullshit and calling our Prime Minister a governor, rather than the tariff's and buy Canadian. Most of what I posted on reddit had no value and I hope to continue that honourable tradition here.
I for one welcome your shitposts
I had to delete thousands of my posts from there multiple times before they stayed deleted. I had most of a decade of helping people out regularly. When all was said and done the only post I left on there were the ones that were helping people migrate to Lemmy before I left.