Please don't turn this into r/worldnews. I'm all for keeping out hate speech but r/worldnews turned into a thought bubble that demonized any opposing ideas that didn't mesh with the mods.

I don't want another echochamber

This post kind of looks like a corporate e-mail from a freshly hired executive.

I meaaaaan I just want world news... With less USA stuff. Every world news sublemmy is 1/2 USA/China/Israel, 1/3 Ukraine/Russia/Turkey and the rest is usually about other oppressive regimes.

I don't quite understand what's about lgbtq+... If there's news, it's news, if there's not, it's not...

I dunno, maybe I should just stop followings any news apart from uplifting ones, because otherwise it's all the same depressing planet. Wars and hunger and collapse and idiots running/ruining everything.

This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities.

What rule changes or moderation styles are you planning in order to do this? In some cases it's a tight-rope walk, because it's important to both do things like ban or warn those engaging in islamophobia while also making sure that forms of Islam that are intolerant towards LGBTQ communities are not able to use their religion as an excuse. Thanks for doing this AMA, I think openness from the mods is really good for community relations.

Can you also provide an explanation on why the previous top mod, sabbah@lemmy.world, has been re-added to the mod team?

Have you thought about coordinating with the other internationally-focused news communities in the fediverse?

What's your criteria for "legitimate news sources"?

Thanks for all the work. Your intent appears generally good, imo. Always good to have honest normal discussions and exchanging culture and viewpoints.

I also have a couple of questions for consideration:

How will this statement:

"That means that hate speech, racism, anti-LGBTQ+, and trolling will not be tolerated."

work out with fox news?

Also fox is not then only (non unbiased) mainstream news outlet, which might conflict with your intended goal. And, what about spreading intentional mis- or disinformation ?

I’d like to make the community more focused on quality content. This means promoting posts that are well-written, informative, and thought-provoking. - what does this mean who is writing posts here?

I’d like to make the community more welcoming to people from all walks of life. This means being more inclusive of people from different cultures, religions, and LGBTQ communities. - was it not before?

As @neuromancer@lemmy.world suggested would you be willing to ban opinion/editorial pieces?

Also, can you clarify the no spam rule?

Currently, it is "No spamming: Please do not post the same content multiple times or post links to irrelevant websites." yet I was banned for posting too many different articles in too short of a time period.

Thanks for the openness and desire to improve an important community on the fediverse.

What would be the one thing on the sidebar you will change?

Yeah ok I can understand Demoding me because you don't like my ideology or instance (not to mention the hordes of liberals screaming "TANKIE") but removing my comments that abide by the rules without a reason is just authoritarian

Could we also possibly have something where we can see "the weight of media bias" like with an app like Ground New? It would be neat to be able to be factual as well as inclusive. What does everyone else think of that?

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any relation to poppinkream?