Fediverse vs Disinformation
Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.
Community rules
Same as instance rules, plus:
- No disinformation
- Posts must be relevant to the topic of astroturfing, propaganda and/or disinformation
Related websites
- EU vs Disinfo
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- Snopes
- Media Bias / Fact Check
- PEN America
- Media Matters
- FAIR
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I think thats the challenge.
With federation, obviously the answer is to de-federate from instances allowing such blatant propaganda.
But what about less blatant forms?
Vote manipulation is obviously against the rules (even supposed to be on Reddit). If we ignore the vote manipulation would any Fediverse rules have been broken?
Looks to me like competing communities have started up and the people that started them are REALLY concerned about riots.
Without vote manipulation they would fizzle out fast and be dead communities / sub Reddits.
Their only hope would be to become the Conservative version of other community; fragmenting communities is hard to do and likely wouldn't work in such a granular manner
"The fediverse" has no rules, if an instance wants to allow vote manipulation they have that power.
Yeah, I think norms is a better word for it
flooding instances with posts that are blatantly weighted would likely lead to de-federation
That said, the bigger the instance the more power they have to do what they want.
Lemmy.world for instance could put the rest of the Lemmy fediverse between a rock and a hard place if they wanted to
I am sort of talking out my ass; but thats how I understand things as they are right now
We have seen interesting things happen with decentralized systems in the past though.
In IRC land for example Freenode.net went through a hostile takeover which within 24 hours caused operators and admins to jump ship and start their own Freenode (with black jack and hookers) and that seems to have been a success story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode
beehaw.org is doing great, and they deferated from.world a while ago. Your point is correct though, Mastodon.social for example has half of all Mastodon users.
That said- there is little incentive to having a large instance, it costs a lot more and requires a lot more work.