I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:
Content Warning
Graphic content, harassment, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which I reported immediately.
While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.
Honestly, I’m not. Yeah, midwest.social is weird. Just a little bit. I hesitated putting it up there.
It’s frustrating to me that there is no really good community for non-political US News. !news@lemmy.world I have 0 complaints about, but it’s lemmy.world, !usnews@beehaw.org is a little quiet and also defederated from lemmy.world which in my opinion isn’t ideal, and yes, midwest.social is a little bit odd.
You know what? Fuck it.
!usa@ponder.cat
Let’s see if that is useful.
I’m open to suggestions, as far as whether it should be only non-political news, and political news should go into one of the already existing multiple good places for it.
I feel like a lot of the interesting news that is going to happen over the next few years is going to be political, though.