Since yesterday, Jordanlund is continuing to remove reporting like that from the reputed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Site_News (article depicted in the screenshot is https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-spy-yoni-koren-stayed-jeffrey-epstein-apartment-ehud-barak) just for being hosted with substack. He is now moderating World News and Politics at lemmy.world.
Yes, legitimate news sites use Blogging platforms, they also use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and we don’t allow those links either.
goodness, that is not the point. That means these outlets post to their own website while also reposting the thing on twitter. In so many cases, their own website uses substack/wordpress! For example, https://time.com/ is the official website of Time magazine, as in the publisher of Time Person of the Year. It uses WordPress, as you can see by going to https://time.com/wp-admin/.
If he wants to target blogspam, he should be targeting things like The Daily Beast and https://www.utubepublisher.in/, which use none of the technologies he’s targeting. This ban on CMS technology is arbitrary and does not prevent poor publishing that simply registers a domain, as anyone may register a domain.
Yeah I don’t agree with that policy either, it makes little sense to me. Many “establishment” media publications are just as full of one-sided horseshit as a lot of the alt media platforms. But anyway, whatever I think, it is nonetheless a longstanding policy of that community afaik and so long as Jordan is in charge it’s unlikely to ever change.
Some of the substack “blogs” he’s removed who did everything to mitigate all his prejudaces against blogs were even journalists who refused to concede their voice to capital and are freelancing and self publishing now. Like he’s basically one step away from saying that ProPublica is “just a blog” and refusing any of their reporting on news stories (often stories that they are the only publication talking about). It creates a MASSIVE blind spot in [email protected] 's feed about what is and isn’t worthwhile knowledge about current events to have. It ultimately only feeds the right wing outrage machine even if it’s only sticking to the centrist position of the outrage machine
Yes I agree with you!
It doesn’t matter what an individual Substack blog does or doesn’t do. The reason there’s a blanket rule is we aren’t going to engage in “But, but, you allowed this OTHER Substack blog, why not MIIIIIIIIIIINE??!?!? Mine is special! I’m special!”
No, just… No. Rule 1 - No Blogs.