It gets very tiring trying to have a conversation with contrarians who think everything Western is bad and anything Chinese/USSR is good.

Why do outsiders keep making shit up about lemmygrad and hexbear?

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

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).