TheDeadGuy

In the last 7 years they’ve been pretty one sided on the political propaganda spectrum

You might think they look cool but they don’t work that well when it’s actually cold or raining hard

SimpsonsFuturama did it

Do no evil

What a joke

You could eat a posterior

Your numbers may be backwards though, that group of people aren’t really early adopters

Plus they’ve been banned for a while and have a few platforms of their own by now

Careful, some people might be downvoting because they don’t want the community to get attention

People tend to upvote and believe anything that already has a lot of upvotes. Seeing downvotes is a good red flag to warn users to not blindly believe everything they see with positive karma.

I think the current system is harder to manipulate than reddit

Oh, I misunderstood then. It sounded to me like they were saying lemmy was more vulnerable

How is that different than what’s currently on reddit? Unless you are talking about 5 years ago, modern reddit is filled with manipulated conversations

Any conversation, be it political or commercial. All it takes is something sounding confident, a grain of truth and lots of upvotes to convince people.

That’s why I like seeing downvoted as a red flag people can pay attention to

Is it any wonder? The money will always try to influence politics and the Supreme Court is the smallest number of individuals with power besides the president. Get a few on your side and so is the law

Ah true, thanks

Yeah, the trust based algo is how they operate wikipedia. Basically it rates users on their edits and accuracy, Ina very slow and time consuming manner for the mods. But it means that users get “trust ranks” for their contributions and have more power based on their rank.

Used on a social media platform will be an interesting experiment, especially if it gets federated. Could be good or bad

Wikipedia is also making social platform too, called WT Social. It’s not federated unfortunately, but maybe that makes it easier to moderate

https://wt.social/

Edit: The beta is here
https://wts2.wt.social

Awesome, just like 7 years ago it was standard. Phones with good specs are gonna last forever with this change