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Kbin: covering all the current news and rumours out of Russia about Wagner, a possible coup, etc. Reddit: crickets Make of it what you will. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really sure what you're talking about here. r/worldnews, r/news, r/UkraineWarVideoReport, r/CombatFootage, r/inthenews, r/RussiaUkraineWar2022, r/Ukraine, r/CrazyFuckingVideos, r/UkrainianConflict, and even r/Damthatsinteresting have posted about it today with thousands of upvotes each.

r/WorldNews even has a stickied megathread about today's news, and sorting by "Hot" on their sub only has a handful of posts not talking about the Wagner Group.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, news about the war is one of the only reasons I still hold on to my reddit account. It may not appear in /r/all, but those subs contain a shitton of relevant content and active discussion about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think this might be it. Assumed it wasn't there because it wasn't in r/all right away - which in turn might be a side effect of all the changes reddit put in to hide protest content from r/all.

So folks casually browsing and not knowing the subs may not see the news right away there, and give up and look at other sites instead. I'm happy to call this another win for the protest.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a constant stream of live coverage in the /r/worldnews Ukraine war megathread, but otherwise yeah it's surprisingly quiet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/r/NonCredibleDefense is also all over it, but I'm not sure how credible the reporting there is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see what you did there

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember when Reddit had the breaking stories LONG before everyone else?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, that was becoming an issue as of late. Unless you know were to look (specific subreddits) /r/all took forever for news to appear. I remember when shit was on /r/all almost instantly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, ordinarily I'd follow this coverage at r/anime_titties

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

there's [email protected] and a similar one on kbin, but they arent very active yet

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Protip: don’t make anything of whether something is or isn’t covered in a particular news source, particularly when the news source isn’t even a real news source (as Reddit isn’t).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the best magazine(s) to follow this unfold?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This lemmy instance seems to be covering a lot

[email protected]

@ukraine

https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] seems to have some stuff, can't say it's best or not though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine after the changes Spez-tic Colon plans to make to the site, crickets will be Reddit's primary audience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

/me furiously writing a cricket bot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This raises one of the problems with company-sponsored media that has been a problem since Pulitzer and Hearst. Your bosses and sponsors will always have opinions about what news is fit to print.

So during the cold war never a bad thing was said about GE (we bring good things to life!) despite how they were pushing our elected officials to buy more nuclear warheads, even when we had plenty. GE bought a lot of commercial time from all three networks and no one wanted to disrupt that cash flow.

This might be a benefit from federated social media, that burying a story becomes impossible requiring only a bit of vigilance from its end users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think Reddit is under Russia thumb, but a lot of the bots and troll farms that generate a lot of the content are

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The front page this morning of /all is full of posts about it.

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