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I posted this article on c/politics and it was quickly taken down by mods. I was informed that the reason was

Rule 1, no social media or blogs

However, c/politics rule 1 states:

Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

I am curious if all substack articles are removed from that community, or just ones that the moderators disagree with.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This has come up before. The mods do not consider substack to be journalistic. They typically remove all posts that link to it.

[–] eugenevdebs 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah if you check [email protected], the politics of lemmy.world mods consider Substack, a software method of content hosting, blogs. But not Wordpress, even though it is the same method of hosting content and is neutral to the content being used for it.

If Fox News used Wordpress, it's allowed to be posted. If NPR used Substack, they'd remove it. It's backwards methods of determining fake news/accuracy.

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

Fox is removed on general principle. :)

[–] eugenevdebs 2 points 40 minutes ago

That's fair enough

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