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I'm enjoying Lemmy so far, for the most part.

Everything here is pretty good save for the fact that all the news and politics I can find is dominated by the same few accounts.

Half or more of the accounts have a very clear agenda. They modify headlines. Lie. Spread disinformation. And generally are just extremely toxic groups.

It doesn't seem to be a secret here either. And moderators appear to have no interest in putting a stop to it.

So, where are you subbed to for reliable news and US/Global politics?

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[-] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The lemmy.world politics posts and feels like the one at Reddit but also includes all of the trolls. I've seen it be successful at Reddit when it's heavily moderated but that's a lot of work. It's too bad that the news stations or agencies don't get together and put up their own instance. On Mastodon they have an aggregator that posts from all of the most reliable sources but no one uses it to talk really. I think there is a solution that hasn't been thought of yet.

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