The Epstein case has a lot of evidence supporting a conspiracy, and I certainly think there is more to it than we know. But in recent days I’ve seen upvoted comments about (a) the NYC shooter not actually targeting the NFL despite all reporting suggesting otherwise, and (b) that Russia intentionally caused the Earthquake.

I think given the self-selective nature of a federated social network we already need to be vigilant about preventing any kind of 4chanification. I’m not calling for censorship of any kind, but I do find it raises some beige flags for me about Lemmy…

  • Scrubbles ( scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’ve not really noticed it, but who knows what instances are or aren’t. Personally I don’t think it’s “censorship” when good modding steps in and says “No, that’s blatantly false and you’re just trying to stir the pot, removed”

  • djsoren19 ( djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
    11·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen either of these takes, and I’m on this platform like 4-6 hours a day at least. I think you have to look at the instances you’re on and the content you’re consuming. I know my instance, blahaj, doesn’t federate with some of the more insane instances, and I’ve personally blocked some of the few problematic ones left like .world.

  • flatbield ( furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) English
    7·
    1 year ago

    You have to be channel selective. There are popular channels I stopped following because of the propaganda issue for example. There are whole lemmy nodes that my node does not federate with for various reasons. The fediverse is a diverse shit show as a whole but one can choose to not follow crap or federate with nodes that allow crap. People can publish what they want but I do not have to listen to it. Nodes can moderate but if people do not like it, they can move to a node that better suits them. This diversity of content plus ability to filter the crap is a the huge power of Lemmy.

  • golden_zealot ( golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English
    2·
    1 year ago

    As far as I understand it, lemmy is a hub for anything and everything anyone wants it to be.

    You can block instances, communities, and accounts to resolve the problem as you see it if you wish, but in my opinion the real move is to learn to be able to read anything and everything in order to obtain the widest view possible without allowing it to affect you personally.

    I feel that if people learned to respond honestly and rationally without logic fallacies and worrying about things as paltry as votes, then we would be better off ultimately.

    That’s not to say that it is easy - but I firmly believe it would be beneficial, specifically because I think it would cut down on echo-chamber effects.