Yeah I get it, everything fucking sucks and sometimes we get a win. I’ve been here for 30 minutes tops and I can’t remember half of the headlines I’ve read, can you? There’s like no engagement on any of the posts here and there’s probably a dozen aggregators that post the same shit you’re looking at.
Shit that was written to nickel and dime you somehow, or lower down the food chain in an academic format for people actually paid to solve problems.
Leave the articles to the climate scientists and policy makers: This instance needs a place for people who get shit done, people who wanna change themselves and their immediate communities. We don’t have enough of that, anywhere.
There are many more communities on this instance that need active participants. If you think this one has too many mainstream news articles (which is a fair point) don’t subscribe to it, or even block it from your feed.
However, looking at the subscriber count of this community it seems to work well as an entry point for people from other Lemmy instances to get to know ours, and I think that is a good thing overall.