Oof, it would be hard to say that out loud with a straight face. But it has some merit.
Most of the posts here are by a small group of people kind enough to repost stuff from their RSS feeds or other aggregators.
Any relevant content is appreciated at this early stage. And only a small percentage of an already small group comment on any platform. As the numbers grow we should see more interaction.
Because of this comment, Im going to comment on every post I see, hopefully I start some conversations...
That always entertained me with Reddit reading 2 people talking about some small pointless thing
What do you think about Taylor Swift not having any Canadian tour dates?
Personally I think it is nothing short of an affront to our Canadian honour, and we should organize a militia to do something about it. I suggest our militia track down her ex boyfriends and start an anti-Swift club.
I hope it stays that way. r/canada was a dumpster fire. The mods did nothing about the obvious vote manipulation and bots for years but often removed left leaning comments. I used https://www.reveddit.com/ to see when my comments were removed and often sent a note to the mods at r/canada asking why my comments had been removed and what rule they had broken. The answer that I most often got was, "We don't have to explain it to you."
I think a mix of both sides is best tbh. Wonder if using the description that is included with link posts would be a good spot to include a couple sources from differing views.
I like a mix of sources between left of center (CBC) and slight right (National Post) with highly factual reporting. Ideally I want something on this list with very highly factual reporting and high credibility. Anything below highly factual or outside of the band between left center and right center I'm not interested in.
The National Post opinion section is a dumpster fire of right wing bullshit.
I'm convinced they were posted to rile up the comments. They are not even insightful op-eds one can disagree with. Just angry old man yells at cloud drivel. yet to the top they go
I don't mind reading CBC ... it is more middle of the road concerning most topics and news headlines out there
Sure the corporation has changed compared to what it was 20 30 years ago but it is still fairly middle of the road.
I lean to the left, I'm an NDP supporter, workers rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+ supporter, women's rights and even the rights of the right to express their views .... and I find CBC to be more middle, maybe middle right for my taste
I have my own news feed I follow and CBC is among them all
Unfortunately, the CBC is kinda the only game in town for news media for a lot of Canada.
In Canada it's basically PostMedia, the Thomson family, and CBC. I think the Toronto Star is under different ownership than the rest, but lately The Star has been indistinguishable from PostMedia. And out of those only PostMedia and CBC cover local news stories. PostMedia has cut back on staff so much and are trying to do the Rupert Murdoch thing (so aren't trustworthy).
So that leaves us with the CBC. This is what the death of traditional media looks like I suppose. Only sources of news are either government funded or are grifters. And some like PostMedia are government funded grifters.
Not good to only have government funded media be the only source of news, but there really aren't other viable options.
There are other sources besides the big mainstream ones, such as The Walrus, The Tyee, The Conversation, Rabble, Canadian Dimension, and others I'm probably forgetting.
Yes but how reliable are the other sources? Anyone can easily set up a website and put some articles.
The distrust of "mainstream media" is a paradox. You can't trust a brand new website for reliable information, because it could just be a random person making shit up. But once a site has been around for a while and has built up a reputation, it gets labelled as "mainstream media" and therefore also shouldn't be trusted.
Besides that, a news site has to be fairly large to be able to afford having journalists spending time investigating stories. But opinions are cheap, and that's generally what the indie "news" sites are. Mostly just a collection of opinion columns with little to no stories resulting from investigative journalism. Sure mainstream media is doing a lot of opinion too, because its cheap and makes money, but at least there's going to be some people at a larger organization doing actual journalism.
I think we just lack honesty in medias biases overall. CBC has a liberal biases , NP and Toronto Star has a neo Conservative biases . Having both is healthy . Having extremist calling for blood and conspiracy and sharing fake news is bad.
Also , sharing columnists' opinions is not sharing news and we have to acknowledge that. Those are just opinions .
There is too much columnist and not enough facts reporting( there are , but we focuses on opinions about facts at 90%).
AP news is probably the most fact neutral IMO.
Be the change you want to see in the world! I've been posting to some less busy subs as much as I can hoping to kickstart them. However if you want more NationalPost, Star, GlobeandMail then hit up those front pages and post the stories you think are interesting to Lemmy!
Exactly! Although asking a question like OP did is also a different post, and got some discussion going. So OP is already being the change they want to see.
From what I read Hot is bugged at the moment and should give better results with the 0.18 lemmy release. Newest Comments is good as you say and I find Top Day is a decent sorting option as well.
Is there an issue? I suggest you look at the raft of communities started during the reddit blackout that did not have users submitting content daily and look at how busy they are now. If you look at the community sorted to Top Day you will see that we're starting to get a decent variety of sources now, so the original plan of watering the community with content until enough of a userbase was collected together that people started submitting a larger variety of things seems to be bearing fruit. People are scooping me on stories more and more which I think is great.
What I'd love to start popping up more actually is posts like this one. Not directly news related, but discussion based posts that really get the community to come out and talk about things. The kind of discussions that get people engaged and contributing.
@grte is free to post what they want, and I'm not saying them posting a multitude of news stories is inherently a bad thing as it generates activity, it's just not what I, or seemingly @MacroCyclo, want to fill our feeds with.
Everyone has biases , and we tend to aggregate into communities. Neutral medias and communities doesn't exist. There was always a information war everywhere. I think we should just have the least amount of bans possible for any media outlets being shared even if we disagree .
Yeah CBC is alright but sometimes they have the most dogshit out of touch articles, it'd be nice to have some variety that way we can get the best from all of them and hopefully all the dogshit from all them will end up at the bottom.
I'm personally in favor of a link repost bot as long as it covers all the Canadian news agencies