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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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No. I had no idea about this instance's reputation when I joined Lemmy but it's nothing like the other instance you mentioned.
It gets very tiring trying to have a conversation with contrarians who think everything Western is bad and anything Chinese/USSR is good. Or worse, that their highly suspicious news sources (some random blog usually) are telling you the real truth, while using any mainstream news media source makes you a deluded Lib
Yes, I imagine it would be tiring if anyone actually argued that. Since it's a ridiculous strawman though, I think you're in the clear
This one simple trick does get you 99% of correct though
Why do outsiders keep making shit up about lemmygrad and hexbear?
I use this instance regularly and more often than not, the articles posted on the news coms are from mainstream sites. And even the "random blogs" (not really, it's a few relatively well known blogs) use mainstream news to get basic facts. As proof, !worldnews@lemmygrad.ml is a link to the world news com. Out of the 20 articles on the front page (as of writing this comment), 9 are from the typical mainstream sites (like reuters) and 5 are from sites that may be mainstream, but I don't know them. Only 6 are from sources like FT or things like a youtube video (which again, may be from some mainstream author).
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !worldnews@lemmygrad.ml