Since yesterday, Jordanlund is continuing to remove reporting like that from the reputed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Site_News (article depicted in the screenshot is https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-spy-yoni-koren-stayed-jeffrey-epstein-apartment-ehud-barak) just for being hosted with substack. He is now moderating World News and Politics at lemmy.world.
Yes, legitimate news sites use Blogging platforms, they also use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and we don't allow those links either.
goodness, that is not the point. That means these outlets post to their own website while also reposting the thing on twitter. In so many cases, their own website uses substack/wordpress! For example, https://time.com/ is the official website of Time magazine, as in the publisher of Time Person of the Year. It uses WordPress, as you can see by going to https://time.com/wp-admin/.
If he wants to target blogspam, he should be targeting things like The Daily Beast and https://www.utubepublisher.in/, which use none of the technologies he's targeting. This ban on CMS technology is arbitrary and does not prevent poor publishing that simply registers a domain, as anyone may register a domain.
The powertrip here is less the application of the rule and more the total unwillingness to adapt the rule. It's being used as a tool against legitimate news from legitimate sources. It could be confirmation bias, but I do not recall seeing widespread enforcement of this particular rule by moderators other than Jordan. If that is erroneous, then it's my mistake, but based on that I believe the inclusion of Substack in that list to be Jordan's pet contribution.
If the other mods feel the same way, perhaps they'll make that known.
I get that. Unfortunately the Threadiverse is designed with almost no option to handle mods who don't listen. Except one: to vote with our feet. In other words, leave said community. I already did that (a long time ago.)
I mean the entire design of Lemmy was just Reddit + "implement vote with feet feature". It seems effective and I don't really see what's wrong with it. Listening to the community is supposed to be the admins' job.
And this particular mod has caused more than one mass exodus IIRC. Dot world admin DGAF.
I mean they didn't care when a top level mod (who also wanted to promote flat earth on .world) said that being pro-palestine was antisemitic.
Ohhhh the flat earth stuff was crazy times. lololol
I'm amazed he's still in power after that but seeing as Jordanlund is in power, it's impressive.