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mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoBut in all practicality, every Lemmy user already knows about Israeli genocidal behavior in Gaza. If every community just becomes format-differentiated reposts of the same stuff, all of Lemmy becomes one big content-blob.
Even if I totally agree that, for example, Elon Musk is obnoxious, and I want to hear some news that he got punched in the face - I don’t want to open Lemmy and see:
You should know Elon Musk got punched in the face Mildly interesting: Elon Musk got punched in the face Mildly infuriating: Whoever punched Elon Musk in the face didn’t punch him hard enough Map porn: Countries where Elon Musk has been punched in the face Gaming: Would you play a Punch Elon Musk In The Face Simulator? Am I the asshole: for thinking Elon Musk deserved to be punched in the face? Programmer Humor: if(isElonMusk){punchedInFace = True;} Privacy: If it’s illegal to punch Elon in the face why is it punch my privacy in the face with tracking? LinuxMemes: sudo punch Elon Musk in face Uplifting news: Elon Musk punched in face Depressing news: Elon Musk not punched twice in face Television: Just watched this character get punched in the face. Remind you of anyone? Classic Rock: “Facepunch” - 1982 Piracy: Links to movies where billionaires get punched in the face?
rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
None of those dumb example is compared to this post. You are ridiculous
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Sorry, my examples maybe didn’t make clear what my issue with the post is. The fact that public support for Israel in Western Europe is at the lowest point ever recorded, is not really a “YSK”, it’s not a piece of advice or tip that I can use in my daily life. It’s good information, but it belongs under News, or Politics. It’s not, as the sidebar says “things that can make your life easier”, unless you went to argue that it psychologically makes my life easier, in which case then I can fit just about anything into this community, in which case why do I even have the community? If everything belongs in the community, then the community may as well not exist.
Just think of how much better and more honest this post would have been if it had been made in a news with a title that was just the title of the article and then a link to the article. But by being posted here in this manner, it comes across as engagement bait - and yes, the title is definitely contributing to that. Is it really news to anyone that people don’t like genocidal murderous bastards? Is that really something “I should know”?
Technically anything that’s news could also be posted here, if we take the definition of the community at its most literal level. But if that’s the case, why should we have a separate news community and a ysk community? Clearly, there should be some sort of distinction between things that belong in ysk versus in the various news communities.