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Agent641, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

Drown it out with even faker news

cedarmesa, (edited )
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💀

Carter, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?

Of course not why would I?

Spzi, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

Make a comment with your conclusion and how you arrived at it.

If applicable, report the post.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Yep, and you might get clowned on in the comments, fairly or unfairly, but all you can do in any media aggregate forum is fact check and try to debunk.

Sensitivezombie, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

Don’t follow news feeds on any social platforms including lemmy. Find a reliable source. These billion dollar platforms like Facebook can’t moderate every fake news, lemmy has no chance.

SpiderShoeCult,

It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they don’t have a need to. Enticing news, fake or otherwise, keeps people engaged, commenting, posting, starting flame wars, and they do all of it on the platform. Somebody at some point noticed that users don’t mind fake news (as in they don’t leave the platform as long as there is fake news posted there), and the potential ‘hit’ to reputation is well balanced by the boost in engagement they see.

Lemmy, on the other hand, might not have the same incentive (yet?) to keep spreading bullshit for the sake of getting firemen and arsonists locked in a neverending game.

trash80, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

Start a fact-checking community? If you can get members who can leave politics at the door and look at things objectively.

JasSmith, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

Ground.news is a great way to get your news. Don’t rely on any one platform.

corsicanguppy, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

conclostion

Nice.

thelsim, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?
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The deadly, yellow snow from right there where the huskies go.
Frank Zappa - Nanook rubs it

Always makes me smile :)

0ops,

As she abused a sausage patty

thelsim,
@thelsim@sh.itjust.works avatar

And said why don’t you treat me mean?

AceQuorthon,

Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow!

scytale, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?

“Music of rebellion makes you wanna rage;

But it’s made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age”

-The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree

Also, People=Shit by Slipknot. lmao

Drunemeton, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?
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“Do You Believe In Shame” by Duran Duran

I heard you speak my name
Heard you singing The Stones
Maybe heard you laughing in a line of static
On my telephone

So why your eyelids are closed
Inside a case of rust
And did you have to change
All your poet’s fire into frozen dust?

I try to justify it
To learn from your mistake
But where’s the stupid lie that has to make its point
With such a pointless waste?”

Simon wrote the lyric for the song about his friend Dave Miles, who tragically died of a drug overdose.

youtu.be/n_Io3CtmdoQ?si=x6ybn7QWd8eoUR41

DirigibleProtein, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?

“Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache”

Synchronicity II, The Police

LordFarkWad7, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?

I went to the doctor

I said I’m feeling kind of rough

“Let me break it to ya son

Your shits fucked up”.

I said “my shits fucked up?

Well I don’t see how.”

He said “the shit that used to work.

Won’t work now.”

-Warren Zevon

realharo, (edited ) in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

First step would be tagging posts/comments, to clearly separate ones meant as pure opinion from ones meant as a factual claim. Then tagging for sourced/unsourced/disputed/misleading/omitting crucial details, etc. claims. Then tagging things like how confident the poster feels about what they’re saying (e.g. from “I heard it somewhere” to “I’ve seen it with my own eyes on multiple occasions”)

Then you would need easy to inspect metadata showing the sourcing chain all the way to the origin. And ability to comment on that (e.g. if some source’s claims are misinterpreted and the source doesn’t actually claim the thing).

Then you would need the people to actually care about facts, even if the facts go against their existing beliefs or preferences.

Also people need to be able to think more with varying degrees of uncertainty built-in, not just “this is definitely true”/“this is definitely false” (unless there is enough material to back that up).

subspaceinterferents, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?
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Now you come to me and you’ve got green streaks in your hair

You walk like Greta Garbo, but you talk like Yogi Bear

What’s going on? What’s going on?

I really don’t believe what’s going on; what’s going on?

— Al Stewart

moldyringwald, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?
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This line from Uncle John’s Band by Grateful Dead is really simple and maybe kinda cheesy but it’s given me motivation and kept me in check a few times:

Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore. 'Cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

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