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I honestly can't tell if this one is just lemmy.world's moderation being shit as usual, or if the fact that the stories getting removed are Russian is actually relevant.

Here are two stories of mine that have been removed from !nottheonion@lemmy.world for being "not onion-y":

  • Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it 'pretty big concession'
  • Moscow hit by massive drone raid for second night ahead of Putin’s Victory Day parade

Stories that are fine, on the other hand?

  • "Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?" our tech columnist asks. "Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued."
  • 'Trump 2028' apparel on sale at the Trump Organization's online store
  • Trump tariffs: US president says foreign movies to be hit with 100% levies

I sort of suspect that what's going on here is a combination of genuine stupidity on the part of the users (having trouble making the leap between "Victory Day" and "Moscow hit by massive drone raid"), plus passivity on the part of the mods (one possibility is that it got reported because of salty pro-Russian people, which the objectively not-oniony stories did not, and the mod just blindly obeys whatever reports say).

Regardless. Moderation on lemmy.world is a pile.

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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not taking all of Ukraine sounds pretty oniony to me but drone raid leap doesn't feel like it works that well.

Chatgpt title is fucking idiotic but not oniony. The last two are okay.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 2 weeks ago

IDK, maybe it's me. To me none of the stories in the second grouping are even vaguely onion-y but I guess there's a certain amount of personal taste involved in it.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

The chatGPT one is the onion-est of the lot! Openly acknowledging your topic is bollocks in the very headline is such an onion thing to do!

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm on team YDI.

None of those articles are anything other than news. They look pretty normal-news to me. Onion stuff is supposed to be beyond the pale and ridiculous. Moscow getting hit by drones at this point is just news. That it coincides with something matters not a whit because there's like a war going on.

Trump saying anything pro-Russia with regards to Ukraine isn't news for the same reason. He's actually already said a lot of similar stuff already. It's just not unexpected, it's not surprising.

I actually went and gathered a bunch of links about Trump saying pro-Russia crap for the past 6 months and then I was like, "Who wants to read this?" We all know it's been happening. It's just not hard to believe anymore.

I think they should probably stop allowing "Trump or the White House posts a photoshop of Trump as something ridiculous" posts because those are also no longer surprising, but Trump 2028 apparel was surprising at the time. I remember seeing that and showing it to some people in my life who didn't believe me when I said that was coming. The "but I was intrigued" story belongs because that is also ridiculous, especially to anyone who knows anything about LLMs. I don't think the foreign movies one should have stuck, but it's for sure more oniony than "and there were more drone strikes."

So, yeah, YDI for these. These are regular news stories now. I'm sorry, but that's just the world we live in.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

None of those articles are anything other than news. They look pretty normal-news to me

That is not ridiculous to you? :

Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it 'pretty big concession'

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As indicated by the following paragraph, no. Which is a shame, but again, completely believable. He has said similar things in the past.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Things can be "believable" and "ridiculous" in the same time. Trump saying shit like this doesn't make it "normal" 🙄

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems like everything he says would qualify as ridiculous under those rules.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Firstly, some things he is saying are more ridiculous than others - that is one of these.

Secondly "not the onion" is precisely for that - for crazy shit which is really happening.

[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yet again, you come on here to talk about how much you hate Lemmy.world. Yet you keep on posting shit to lemmy.world.

Dude, just stay away from it if you hate it that much.

I'm gonna say YDI because you know they don't like you there, but you keep posting to try to stir up shit so you can come here and point fingers.

And PTB because they are known assholes.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Clearly not oniony. Finding other posts that shouldn't have been allowed can't exonerate yours.