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Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good. in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Please replace the Yahoo News link with one to the original. Yahoo News is a feed that aggregates news from outlets, and it displays the source for each item at the top.

Texas authorities rescue stranded drivers in Uvalde County floodwaters in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In line with our rules against bad copies, could you replace the link with one to the original The Independent post?

Occupation army faces reserve troop, tank shortages in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Your submission in "Occupation army faces reserve troop, tank shortages" was removed as schadenfreude, war is not uplifting (rule a)).

Veterans challenge 4th of July lies in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Your submission in "Veterans challenge 4th of July lies" was removed as toxic politics (rule b)).

United Soccer League Announces USL Premier, New Interconnected Men’s Professional Structure in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Your submission in "United Soccer League Announces USL Premier, New Interconnected Men’s Professional Structure" was removed as not uplifting (as far as I can tell as a non-USL guy).

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Your submission in "Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed" was removed as too borderline schadenfreude and old.

Portland teen finds original Wilt Chamberlain warm-up jacket at Hillsboro Goodwill in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would you kindly remove /amp from the link? It is forcing upon us a mobile version of the site.

3 Founding Fathers died on July 4th in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Your submission in "3 Founding Fathers died on July 4th" was removed as not uplifting (rule a)).

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Donate $26 Million to U.S. Charities Ahead Of Wedding in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

To pre-empt possible reports: This is plausibly uplifting, and it's the votes that represent how we respond to this news. With these downvotes I doubt it'd show up in any feed, and that should be enough.

EU to ban destruction of unsold clothes and shoes from 19 July 2026 in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 87 points 3 weeks ago

The linked article is an inferior but true copy of https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en , an EU press release with the same headline and, as far as I can tell, true.

🫱🫸🫲 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

sounds like we should get off telegram! (or at least the official client?)

WebP is a pretty awesome format with awesome compression, both lossless and lossy. It's only behind JXL which is not widely adopted.

Developers, housing advocates and environmentalists celebrate new North Carolina bill banning parking minimums in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Opening a little reply chain here for the active mods (@sga013@lemmy.world, @NickwithaC@lemmy.world, and I) to discuss whether this violates rule a), "Posts must be uplifting". I think a pretty good argument can be made here that it is uplifting and the article presents this argument. Since the contention isn't whether this is schadenfreude (commenters don't seem to think so) but whether this is good, I believe the upvoters also agree this is uplifting.

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guy repetitively referring to russians as "orc"s (lemmy.world)
 

I'm new to moderating on Lemmy.World since I only have this account as a community I moderate is on .World. This user has persistently been using "orc" to refer to Russians and a user who defends Russian driving. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orc says it's an ethnic slur but https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1811354/i-will-not-call-russians-rushists-or-orcs-that-s-dehumanising-interview makes it out slightly more nuanced as a dehumanizing pejorative.

The comments' not receiving admin action has got me wondering. Is this time for some sort of ban? Does this violate the instance rules?

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[Meta] Enumerated list of rules (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Aatube@lemmy.world to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink
 

Since it's slightly less than easy to glean the rules from the sidebar, here's an itemized collection of rules. For example, the schadenfreude rule can be referred to as a)1.

a) Posts must be uplifting.

  1. This excludes schadenfreude.^[1]^
    Try !politicaloptimism@piefed.social instead if the subject involves powerful people.

b) Posts must not overtly deal with toxic politics.^[1]^

c) Links must not be low-effort.^[1]^

  1. Links must not go to a copy of a copy of a copy.
    (Try finding the original source instead! Links do not have to be textual, so there's no need to find a content farm to post a video.)
  2. Posts must not be fake news.

d) Comments should foster open discussion.

  1. Negativity/spreading doom and gloom in comments is currently allowed.^[2]^
  2. Comments be civil and must not include personal attacks towards other commenters or non-public figures. (Swearing is allowed as long as it isn't directed towards those.) Please engage with others' points respectfully and fully.
    The rest of the lemmy.world instance rules apply here as well.

[1] https://lemmy.world/post/30918729
[2] https://lemmy.world/post/36475489

If there's something you think that should be on here but isn't, feel free to say so!

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[Meta] Please stop linking to utubepublisher (lemmy.world)
 

Over the past week, I've seen a lot of discontent on this source, which gets a lot of deserved flak for seeming like a content farm that adds little to its original sources.

I discussed this with @sga013@lemmy.world, who pointed out that we do actually have a rule against such outlets instituted in the "no schadenfreude" post:

We are also banning low effort news or fake news. This could be news which is not adding anything new at all or is a copy of a copy of a copy (and bad one). Please try to fetch original sources. This is just to maintain a standard. This does not restrict you from posting a news which is targeted at a small group, or is published by a small group which may not be publishing a very fancy, furnished looking posts. Essentially - a no fluff rule.

This applies very much to www.utubepublisher.in . I've added a mention of the above rule to the sidebar, and please take care to not post articles like that of this outlet from now on. Instead, post the original sources of the article topic, even if they are videos.

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