YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against Wikipedia

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YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against Wikipedia - Ponder.cat

He generally shows most of the signs of the misinformation accounts: * Wants to repeatedly tell basically the same narrative and nothing else * Narrative is fundamentally false * Not interested in any kind of conversation or in learning that what he’s posting is backwards from the values he claims to profess I also suspect that it’s not a coincidence that this is happening just as the Elon Musks of the world are ramping up attacks on Wikipedia, specially because it is a force for truth in the world that’s less corruptible than a lot of the others, and tends to fight back legally if someone tries to interfere with the free speech or safety of its editors. Anyway, YSK. I reported him as misinformation, but who knows if that will lead to any result. Edit: Number of people real salty that I’m talking about this: Lots

There’s a lot of people posting lies and acting weird on Lemmy at the moment unfortunately. There’s been a sudden shift from evidence based to being an echo changer

A few months ago you could have a discussion and people would exchange evidence. Now evidence no longer matters. People here have started acting the same as places like truth social unfortunately

In fact, it’s part of the reason I’ve started to move back to Reddit.

In fact, it’s part of the reason I’ve started to move back to Reddit.

Lol, yeah cuz Reddit has no bots at all.

Great idea. Good bye
reddit has more echoechamber subs and lots of bots. its worse than lemmy.
It’s just as bad as lemmy.
i mean bots literally make the most of the posts and comments that goes on r/all everytime. if you check the user of a popular post on reddit its most likely to be a bot.

its worse than lemmy

I recently was looking for help troubleshooting an issue and ended up checking reddit and I was shocked at just how bad it got. There were AI generated comments that seemed to provide a solution, but the link went to some spam URL instead of the product they were supposedly talking about (and these were recent comments, not old dead links). The kind of stuff you used to see on unmoderated comment sections on WordPress sites that nobody maintained.

Back when I started beekeeping, none of us wore any PPE and we kept getting stung. We started wearing PPE and it was better, but recently I’ve been stung a few times so I’m just going to do back to raw dogging it.