There are some good people there. Being in the USA, I do seek US news, so I'm there. Lemmygrad has one too but serves as a catchall, like the other.

Listen, I'm probably a decade or two older than the average Lemmy user, and it wasn't until the last year, give or take a few months, that I was able to suspend disbelief, first, come to believe a fair amount later, and take a whole lot from either instance with a few kilos of salt. Governments propagandize, fact of life. I first came here to dispute, too, and was provided links from Western media that allowed me to suspend disbelief and seek more information. I don't have an issue with honest dis/believers. I would be extremely hypocritical if I did. But it's pretty gross that the people who pay for these unnecessary wars with blood and money refuse to even suspend disbelief and seek real answers, and I'm not even better than that, because it took me over three decades to develop empathy for Palestine (because I found Internet forum of users who gave factual, documented information, like .ml does), and another couple of decades to believe about Ukraine - Russia.

The thing is, when I first went on .world some of those exact same people were loud disbelievers about Palestine, too. Now the whole instance just about is. Will they come around about Ukraine too? Hopefully, before the situation* is as ~~due~~ dire as Palestine. They're developing an ambivalent attitude about China, will they about Russia? I don't know.

*ISP slow

The attempt to staple the Ukraine issue to Palestine was cynical from the start, comparing a response to 10 years of US-funded terror bombing + pillaging against DPR & LPR to the latest offensive in a war of extermination the Israelis are devoted to for the existence of their settler state and the interest of the US ruling class that enables it. The equivocation being made there runs along with the narrative of the orgs that try to paint the AoR as divided & endangering Palestinians, such as Al Jazeera and much of the western alternative media

They boil down the differences of the conflicts & the combatants to "people talk about Ukraine too much and Palestine not enough" - and this rarely includes any actual critique of the media outlets & NGOs that funnel money to Nazi mercenaries in broad daylight despite masquerading as media critique

They are not going to learn, because they are only listening when they are tuned into the western intellectual apparatus. 100% of the moderation decisions on these sites are modeled after "anti-disinformation" rules that were crafted by the NATOid security racket, and it's undeniable because there is not a single thing they disagree on until they get deplatformed like the RedStream guy in Germany lmao