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.

  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    173·
    3 days ago

    I’m on team YDI.

    None of those articles are anything other than news. They look pretty normal-news to me. Onion stuff is supposed to be beyond the pale and ridiculous. Moscow getting hit by drones at this point is just news. That it coincides with something matters not a whit because there’s like a war going on.

    Trump saying anything pro-Russia with regards to Ukraine isn’t news for the same reason. He’s actually already said a lot of similar stuff already. It’s just not unexpected, it’s not surprising.

    I actually went and gathered a bunch of links about Trump saying pro-Russia crap for the past 6 months and then I was like, “Who wants to read this?” We all know it’s been happening. It’s just not hard to believe anymore.

    I think they should probably stop allowing “Trump or the White House posts a photoshop of Trump as something ridiculous” posts because those are also no longer surprising, but Trump 2028 apparel was surprising at the time. I remember seeing that and showing it to some people in my life who didn’t believe me when I said that was coming. The “but I was intrigued” story belongs because that is also ridiculous, especially to anyone who knows anything about LLMs. I don’t think the foreign movies one should have stuck, but it’s for sure more oniony than “and there were more drone strikes.”

    So, yeah, YDI for these. These are regular news stories now. I’m sorry, but that’s just the world we live in.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      42·
      2 days ago

      None of those articles are anything other than news. They look pretty normal-news to me

      That is not ridiculous to you? :

      Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it ‘pretty big concession’

      • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        As indicated by the following paragraph, no. Which is a shame, but again, completely believable. He has said similar things in the past.

        • FelixCress@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 days ago

          Things can be “believable” and “ridiculous” in the same time. Trump saying shit like this doesn’t make it “normal” 🙄

            • FelixCress@lemmy.world
              11·
              1 day ago

              Firstly, some things he is saying are more ridiculous than others - that is one of these.

              Secondly “not the onion” is precisely for that - for crazy shit which is really happening.