“the recent shooting” ? You’ll have to be more specific. Was this in Palestine?
second white person shot by police in two weeks in the US
Why is their race important?
Because other races of people have been getting shot constantly and it’s only now that (white) people seem to be outraged. (Not me I’ve been outraged for years).
This is such a weird sentence to say out loud.
You got that from “the recent shooting”? What about recent shootings in other countries?
i have media literacy and am aware the internet is made by burgerland
Don’t be an ass
Tbf Gold_E_Lox was being snarky in the first place
We have to teach the USA folks that not everything revolves around them. They will have to get used to it anyway.
For now. .world mods are deleting these like crazy, but the guy has a website and is asking for contributions. https://crimesofice.org/
What are you referring to with “these”?
Read the post title to find out
tl;dr
I second the weekly news and bulletins mega threads by @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net
Mods there remove videos they don’t like. I had one up of a suspected agent provocateur burning a flag at a protest and then trying to disappear but the protestors corner him. It got a lot of attention and mods randomly removed it saying fuck the American flag
It wasn’t an endorsement of their policies, just a place that the videos you asked about have been popping up.
Got it. What I’m looking for is something like we had in the past. Place where you can post videos, clips or have discussions on current events. Mods seem very different in the past 5 years. Everything is extremely boxed in. For example if I saw a video of Jon Stewart that was giving a great speech, where could I post that here on lemme? I’ve been in this situation a few times and it looks like I could maybe find a jon Stewart community with 6 people but there isn’t really a community to post the random stuff we come across and it’s killing a lot of momentum in my mind to get leftist communities up and going.
One community might be strictly clips only and only clips that are about a narrow subject. Another community is strictly headlines online and about a narrow subject. Another community are meme focused but memes with only skeletons in it. But then there’s a community for meme but without skeletons. If you post a skeleton meme, banned. Like this moderation and community-based policing i think seemed like a nice idea to keep it orderly, but i feel we’re losing real community and I’m searching for places that get it.
If you have a vision, make it yourself. That’s what we need here anyway.
I understand your frustration! Unfortunately I don’t have an easy answer.
The culture on Lemmy can cause a fair bit of confusion at first. We have this phenomenon where people migrate here and want to have all the niche communities that existed where they came from without the users required to maintain those places. As a result we have a lot of communities with little to no interaction because it’s usually just one or two people contributing. The situation you’re describing is a pretty common example of this.
If you’re looking for existing communities you may have better luck finding them on Lemmyverse. If you still don’t find the type of place you’re looking for, you might consider creating a community for the more generalized content you want to share. If that isn’t something you feel comfortable taking on alone, maybe others would be willing to help you run it and keep things active. Lemmy is full of people looking for places to participate!
Depends on the country. There are many US specific communities like https://lemmy.ml/c/usa
On Lemmy? The local Lemmy communities for the communities most impacted. Currently, most of what I see if on https://midwest.social/c/usa@midwest.social.
Outside of Lemmy?
mastodon.social
This is where I have found most raw footage, plus stabilized and slowed footage.The local news stations for that area has the more verified info plus overviews.
Snapchat map for that area show some of the improvised barricades and troop movements.Unfortunately it’s a Twitter link but here’s a video of the shooting.
Honestly I use Instagram a lot and it’s full of personal videos. They get shared over and over and it’s hard to get them removed. So they are generally on there.
Not a Lemmy resource, but if you do want reasonably unbiased news that gets suppressed - especially in certain countries, Wikipedia does cover some of it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
