Over the past week or two, I’ve been discussing merging this community with c/world. The intents and purposes of both of these communities are essentially the same, and we don’t really see a reason to divide that community rather than just put it all under one roof.
We’re open to any and all opinions on this, and nothing is set in stone so please feel free to reply candidly.
Please speak up especially if you feel like:
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You wouldn’t like this for really any reason
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You feel this community already serves a different purpose
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You feel this community could serve a different purpose, and include what changes you’d like to see to meet that goal.
I work with the head mod of c/world, @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world, on c/NFL and talk to him regularly, we’re both pretty much on the same page about everything and moderate communities in a similar manner, so if your only reservation would be possible stricter or different moderation, I hope that alleviates some of the concern. All of the mods from here would also be welcome to join over there if we do merge.
I think they serve two different purposes. “World news” is literally event by event news, “world” can be more discussion-oriented (well, except that they… only allow news articles, geez). I just posted an op-ed in /c/worldnews a minute ago thinking “huh this would fit better if there were a /c/world, this isn’t exactly news so much as analysis” (then just now seeing this post). If we learned one thing from reddit it’s not to centralize control over communities.
