If you are willing and able to help moderate this community please reach out in the comments below!
I am EST, other timezones are preferred but not necessary.
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What we're looking for--
Being a news community, moderating here is essential. Moderation of news preferably requires leaving personal biases aside and allowing otherwise relevant content to stay up even if you disagree with it. Also, posting from less biased sources is always preferred.
I'm not super experienced, but I'd be willing to give it a try and help out - if you feel Im not working out you can always demote me with no hard feelings :)
Happy to help. I've moderated some smaller niches on the former site that won't be named. I'm west coast and while I have my personal beliefs, I do try to seek wider input for knowledge and discussion.
It looks to me like news@beehaw.org is much more active than this community. Is there any benefit from the fragmentation? Why not close this one and redirect it?
I'm not sure about benefits besides potentially different moderation teams if either of them turns into a bit of a cesspool.
I clicked your link and it didn't lead me anywhere, however, and I have seen that many times if communities in other instances are not linked correctly, it will log you out when you go there if you're from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc.
It's all a bit confusing with the instances and redundant communities, but I suppose the major difference would be that people tend to end up on their own instances community for whatever the topic is.