Love you Beehaw admins. Been here only a week but you know I've been patiently waiting to join since spez was a see you next tuesday. And finally I am here and this instance is everything anyone could ask for. You are a great team of mods. This is such a quality place. Wha ta relief in this time. Thank you.
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I like the preferred list concept. I also didn't hate when lemmy world used a bot on news subs to post the media source's political leaning and overall credibility to every submission. Many disagreed with the bot's source of information, but what if every submission here got an automatic pinned **This source lacks consistent credibility because reasons... ** type post with you maintaining the list/assessment the bot draws from?
Between moderation of the worst of the worst and a strong disclaimer on dubious sources, it might help visitors gain better media literacy.
Problem with that is that orgs do not universally suffer from the same issues. When I was writing out the opening post here, I made it a point to say that a quality source was necessary but insufficient for news determination. Everyone puts out some fluff.
I truly don't think we can do this at the domain level and achieve the desired results.
Appreciate the mea culpa.
It might take too much hands on, but a tagging system could work.
Something like
[Independent Media] Article Title
[Corporate Media] Article Title
That also requires the poster to understand the source, which may or may not be the case
That also requires the poster to understand the source, which may or may not be the case
That's the general problem. Users seem to have a firm grasp of what's acceptable in this community (seriously, in 20 months, I've had to remove two posts that I can recall), but expecting them to vet sources is not a reasonable ask for people not already neck-deep in journalism.
I'm just trying to get out ahead of how fast things are deteriorating since the inauguration; I was expecting this, but in the first 100 days, not 10. And if you can't admit when you make a mistake, how can anyone trust you to lead a community? Both sentences being in the same graf is not an accident.
Oh I get it 100%. It is so hard to keep going and push through the BS. But remember, the exhaustion is the point of their tactic. They want to exhaust people and resources so when the dust settles we are out of will and ability to fight. Pick your battles, bide your time, and don't burn too hot. I know, easier said than done
They're quite effectively flooding the zone with shit at scale. The one upside to my situation is that I will never have to type out ... oh, shit, this sort of defeats the point of the joke ... Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I mean I'll never have to do it again. The state many are in is already enough to overwhelm our mental-health system (such as it is) in very short order.
Yes indeed. Everyone I know is a fart that is too loud away from crisis a lot of the time, including myself.
Yeah, it's rather exhausting to hunt down information about some of these things. Like, I can usually find info on who owns a news site, but sometimes I don't have the context to know if they've been doing shady shit. Keeping track of things is (purposefully) difficult. Like, I found this resource but it is out of date. I am using ublocklist to slowly add to a list of news sites to make it so that I check them as I see them. If anything comes of that, I'll post here or something?
Don't forget that RSS is still a thing. A bit of setup, and news from sites you trust gets delivered to you.
I found that info too. Shame they did not keep it up to date. But yeah, it is such a tough thing to keep track of for every company.