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.
I agree.
The policies of some news coms are part of the reason I just started my own. I’m a strong believer in media pluralism, which includes seeing the value in a wide variety of news sources. How something looks or where it’s published has little to do with the quality of the journalism.
Lawfare is on substack. Unicorn riot looks trashy as hell, but they’re used as a first source by fact checkers and do high quality investigations. The Klaxon looks like a blog site run by one guy, but that guy is a professional journalist who performs well-sourced in-depth investigations.
However, those are the rules of the community and they’ve given no inclination about changing them. Better to find or create a better com.