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I honestly can't tell if this one is just lemmy.world's moderation being shit as usual, or if the fact that the stories getting removed are Russian is actually relevant.

Here are two stories of mine that have been removed from !nottheonion@lemmy.world for being "not onion-y":

  • Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it 'pretty big concession'
  • Moscow hit by massive drone raid for second night ahead of Putin’s Victory Day parade

Stories that are fine, on the other hand?

  • "Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?" our tech columnist asks. "Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued."
  • 'Trump 2028' apparel on sale at the Trump Organization's online store
  • Trump tariffs: US president says foreign movies to be hit with 100% levies

I sort of suspect that what's going on here is a combination of genuine stupidity on the part of the users (having trouble making the leap between "Victory Day" and "Moscow hit by massive drone raid"), plus passivity on the part of the mods (one possibility is that it got reported because of salty pro-Russian people, which the objectively not-oniony stories did not, and the mod just blindly obeys whatever reports say).

Regardless. Moderation on lemmy.world is a pile.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 21 hours ago

You didn't answer, but @Skua@kbin.earth just figured out what the image was from. It's a photo of a page from a textbook showing an undated and heavily edited photo of a textbook. Sterling.

I have 0 idea that this will change your mind, since you already know you're right, and any contrary information is some kind of offense against you instead of just someone trying to talk sense and logic. All conversations are zero-sum. Loyalty is more important than truth. And so on. Clearly.

Have a good one

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

I think you meant to reply to hobgoblin, not me

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 7 hours ago

I absolutely did, sorry about that.

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