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.
Not taking all of Ukraine sounds pretty oniony to me but drone raid leap doesn’t feel like it works that well.
Chatgpt title is fucking idiotic but not oniony. The last two are okay.
IDK, maybe it’s me. To me none of the stories in the second grouping are even vaguely onion-y but I guess there’s a certain amount of personal taste involved in it.
The chatGPT one is the onion-est of the lot! Openly acknowledging your topic is bollocks in the very headline is such an onion thing to do!