I agree with this. I'm fact, just this morning, I unsubscribed from the main one because I realised I was getting too caught up in silly drama. As you plan, I'll go over there now and again. But for now, I need to touch some grass or pebbles or the broken bits of glass next to a bus stop outside a nightclub – anything to get outdoors, basically.

I will also take this opportunity to say I appreciate it when you say, to paraphrase, 'this is worldnews and you have posted boring US news and nobody cares'.

Yes all the other news communities are borderline unusable. For socialist news discussion, Hexbear's news megathread is very good, but its news community is a bit inactive in comparison. For a good news community, you need actually engaging discussion, so I would caution against cross-posting for the sake of boosting activity. You will probably just end up with a bunch of barely upvoted posts.

I completely agree with you, reading the news is a crucial part of my day and I need more like-minded people to share and discuss it with.

I really liked those megathread posts that were around for a bit but I didn’t get a chance to contribute cause I’m extremely disorganized.

I will definitely make a concerted effort to post and comment in c/worldnews if that is the plan. I often come across articles that I don’t see shared on here that would be interesting to comrades. Really big fan of this post, thanks.

I like the idea of a bot but do we want all the trash posts they have from US propaganda sources? I mean do we want our news feed filled with CNN/Fox News/ABC/CBS/NBC/Yahoo anti-communist, pro-US-imperialist VOA nonsense?

If we do have a bot I'd almost want it set to only scrape posts from certain sources. RT is fine most of the time (they play both sides so they host reactionaries with quite some takes sometimes but are mostly acceptable), CGTN, Xinhua are fine as well. Various more blog source type places such as moonofalabama, multipolarista, greyzone, etc. Even AP and to a degree Reuters aren't as seething on fire about it as the non-wire services (though to be clear both are compromised directly by NATO intelligence and full of bootlickers of empire).

I definitely second that, specially if it avoids the usual Northern obsessions like the USA electoralism, Ukraine war and the "Free World" to focus more on the rest of the world in depth. If I may propose some suggestions, there could be a rule where every post needs to have some brief summary/preface of the article written by the poster to make it easier to moderate out liberal spam and unreliable headlines. Right now c/GenZedong is acting as the de facto world news.

Crosspost bot is a great idea. I've manually crossposted before just because I wanted to show a particular news story to a broader audience.

I pretty much only post news on Lemmygrad communities so I don't have to deal with reactionaries, which I'm also not online enough take the time to interact with. I do agree that we should build our communities and then crosspost to others to help spread info, but I'll rely on others for that 😅

I don't know as I'm still learning Lemmy. I do see reactionaries a lot here as well but just keep from engaging and stick more to lurking and upvoting quality content instead.