Hardly PTB, though. If that's their rule and they're merely enforcing it. More a discussion whether their rules make any sense. But I'm not defending WorldNews and the mods. Just saying either have rules AND enforce them. Or don't make rules in the first place. Anything else is ridiculous.

I thought the issue with Substack was that they wouldn't remove nazi content?

Christ, he's still a moderator over there? What a joke of an administration. Guess they expected us to forget how much of a dishonest piece of shit Jordan is, or that he'd somehow change his ways despite how obvious it is that he has no intention of doing so.

Lemmy.world sucks. Lemmy has been more enjoyable since I blocked it.

Substack is not a CMS, it's a platform like Blogger or Medium. I pretty easily found other articles on the same story from places that don't host Nazis.

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.

He's an egotistical asshole when questioned, especially about substack hosted content.

In his eyes if he can find substack when searching the page it's enough to call it a blog.

And according to the the admins of lemmy world this is perfectly acceptable if not encouraged behavior

Of course. He's jordanlund.

This is a great metaphor for liberal politics. It doesn’t matter if they make no sense or are harmful, rules are rules and we have to abide by them.

This is a technical YDI with a heaping side of CLM(s). The comm rules spell out that Substack is verboten, even though the rule itself is misguided. Expect any such posts to be removed, most likely by the mod in question, until such point that either the rule or the modlist changes.

The continued presence of such a technicality in the rules degrades the credibility of the comm as a whole.

!world@quokk.au

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.