Since yesterday, Jordanlund is continuing to remove reporting like that from the reputed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Site_News (article depicted in the screenshot is https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-spy-yoni-koren-stayed-jeffrey-epstein-apartment-ehud-barak) just for being hosted with substack. He is now moderating World News and Politics at lemmy.world.

Yes, legitimate news sites use Blogging platforms, they also use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and we don’t allow those links either.

goodness, that is not the point. That means these outlets post to their own website while also reposting the thing on twitter. In so many cases, their own website uses substack/wordpress! For example, https://time.com/ is the official website of Time magazine, as in the publisher of Time Person of the Year. It uses WordPress, as you can see by going to https://time.com/wp-admin/.

If he wants to target blogspam, he should be targeting things like The Daily Beast and https://www.utubepublisher.in/, which use none of the technologies he’s targeting. This ban on CMS technology is arbitrary and does not prevent poor publishing that simply registers a domain, as anyone may register a domain.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hardly PTB, though. If that’s their rule and they’re merely enforcing it. More a discussion whether their rules make any sense. But I’m not defending WorldNews and the mods. Just saying either have rules AND enforce them. Or don’t make rules in the first place. Anything else is ridiculous.

    • lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The powertrip here is less the application of the rule and more the total unwillingness to adapt the rule. It’s being used as a tool against legitimate news from legitimate sources. It could be confirmation bias, but I do not recall seeing widespread enforcement of this particular rule by moderators other than Jordan. If that is erroneous, then it’s my mistake, but based on that I believe the inclusion of Substack in that list to be Jordan’s pet contribution.

      If the other mods feel the same way, perhaps they’ll make that known.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I get that. Unfortunately the Threadiverse is designed with almost no option to handle mods who don’t listen or push weird agendas. Except one: to vote with our feet. In other words, leave said community. I already did that (a long time ago.) I wish we had more comfortable ways to address it, or let the community members shape their rules. But we sadly don’t have that.