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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 18:49:35 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   • David
   • Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

   @IPEdmonton @David

   If you know other curation sources would be happy to list them?

   I'm trying to encourage as many human-run curation accounts as possible.

   • Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn: (ipedmonton@mstdn.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 19:00:43 JST Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

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     • David

     @feditips @David that’s not the point. The point is that if a feed consists exclusively or even mainly of AMERICAN news, it should be called “US news”, not “general news”. So far, the Fediverse has not been a US-centric place, and that’s a delight. Let’s preserve that, not change it.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 19:00:43 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

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     • David
     • Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

     @IPEdmonton @David

     I can only recommend accounts that exist?

     Their current timeline has posts about Polish election results and civilian deaths in Gaza, so I think "General news from a US perspective" is more appropriate than "US news", and have edited the original post to reflect this.

   • Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn: (ipedmonton@mstdn.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 21:46:00 JST Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

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     • David

     @David @feditips ALL of this.

   • Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn: (ipedmonton@mstdn.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 21:46:01 JST Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

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     • David

     @feditips @David you can indeed only recommend accounts that exist, but you can also be careful in how you call a feed, by not promoting the idea that US-based things are somehow “general” or the default. Thanks for making this change.

   • David (david@spore.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 21:46:01 JST David

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     • Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

     @feditips What @IPEdmonton says.

     Please recommend what you want, this is not the issue. The issue is assuming that the US is the only country that exists, basically.

     Not even a joke: Do you know how I recognize Americans on the Fediverse? They're the only ones who don't say what country they're from (because in their mind, there is no need, there's only one country in the world, right?)

     I think mentioning what countries the accounts you recommend are from will go a long way.