• snooggums
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    118 days ago

    Blog sites aren’t news.

    Do you mean “aren’t news sites?”

    Because not being a news site and not being news are two different things.

    • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      -288 days ago

      I mean, if you want to be pedantic, sure. News is the plural of “New”. :)

      But just because it’s new doesn’t make it news.

      • snooggums
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        8 days ago

        I want to be pedantic because it is an important distinction.

        If the exact same text credited to the same person is posted on a news site and on substack, but you only consider one of them to be a ‘news article’, then the distinction is important.

        But thanks for proving you are a PTB by twisting my extremely clear point into absurd word nonsense.

        • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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          -158 days ago

          Correct, because blog sites have no accountability. I could set up a Substack blog, that would get removed too, as it should be.

          Same for Twitter. “But, but… they have a blue check mark!” yeah, as we all know now, means nothing.

          • snooggums
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            58 days ago

            I understood the reasoning from the beginning, but thanks for making it extremely clear that the rules don’t match the enforcement.