Are there any active news communities similar to Lemmy/Reddit, but users can only vote and comment, not post articles?
Are there any active news communities similar to Lemmy/Reddit, but users can only vote and comment, not post articles?
Like, the site owners/employees/admins/mods are the only ones who choose what to post(and hopefully not extremely bias and a good spread of topics), but the users can still upvote/downvote the post as well as comment and all that?
I like the aggregation mark down style of these sites, but I am not sure about the curation being purely user based. I am curious if the users having a large majority control of the curation hurts the quality, and I'd like to see comparisons if they exist.
honestly, sounds like you are looking for a comment section on a news network to me. maybe im missing something.
I guess kind of.
But the idea would still be an aggregation of different sources, but mainly curated by a select few, rather than the full population. Users would still influence post order and all that.
Ohwell, I didn't think it'd exist, or be well known if it does, but was just posting to see if anyone here knew of anything.
Flipboard sounds a lot like what you're looking for
I think you just reinvented slashdot.
Also Fark
Heard the name before, had no idea what it was. Guess that Fatboy Slim Slash Dot song brainwashed me into thinking it was the only Slash Dot that matters ha
Appreciate it
Check out Hacker News. Their mission is to only allow thought provoking posts and to not allow enshitification or dumbing down of their platform.
Users can still post content but it is more highly moderated to maintain quality. The users tend to be techy so user submissions are higher quality than average reddit/lemmy posts.
There is a lemmy community that reposts articles from hacker news but now I just browse it on their website or using the Android app Harmonic which I recommend.
Actually I stumbled onto that one before I posted. I have a new goal in life to get to a level that Hacker News posts are just light reading for me.
For now, most of that is way above my pay grade but I loved the posts I understood ha
There's a bot that reposts HN content, but I'm not sure if it has its own community. And if it does, I don't think there's any restrictions on posting from users.
Edit: There is !hackernews@derp.foo . It doesn't limit users from posting though, but I don't see anyone really posting other than the bot anyway.
Yeah, some of them are way too technical for me as well. Only some of the articles end up getting reposted to lemmy though, when I browse directly on hacker news, I tend to find a good mix of articles that are less technical but still interesting.
but I am not sure about the curation being purely user based.
So you don't trust random users, but you do trust... random admins or moderators?
Your logic here is not sound. They're just as likely to be biased or leave out important information.
If you want it like that, I think you should follow @Uncle's suggestion and just use news sites like Associated Press or Reuters.
Seriously, why would the curation be any better when done by an admin or mod versus average users?
Oh look at that, I'm an average Lemmy user, and I just made a news community and now I'm the moderator of it. See what I'm saying here? If you don't trust users, well.... users are where mods come from, so I don't know what to tell you.
You brought in trust, I didn't.
I just don't think purely population based curation is coming up with the best content selection. I wanted to see alternatives.
I just don’t think purely population based curation is coming up with the best content selection.
Ergo, you don't trust that users are able to curate as well as an individual, despite the fact that the individual is just one of many users.
Just because you didn't use the word "trust" doesn't mean you're not describing not trusting that you'll get the best curated content from a large group of users as opposed to a small group. It's literally exactly what you're describing, that you don't trust you'll get the best results from a group.
digg?
Oh shit, Digg is still around and basically what I was curious about
Sadly, looks like the news/tech topics are pretty dead user wise, but maybe I just need to explore it better to understand.
Appreciate it, curious if the post selection is better or worse than the popular forums.
You can already do that on Lemmy. !brainworms@lemm.ee for example.
Thats Digg these days, though comments are sparse.
hackernew ?