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
Matrix chat links
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Why were they federated anywhere in the first place and what changed?
Most of the fediverse runs on a blacklist, not a whitelist. This means that new instances are federated by default as a general rule, though content only travels through instances when it's requested by users in some way or another.
Blocking an instance is not much more work than banning a user, so in most cases it's not a huge problem to have to actively defederate from bad actors.
yeah but then you get shit like, invisible maga replies to all of your comments….
you don’t see them because you “blocked” the instance, but to everyone else there’s three paragraphs of maga shit around everything you write….
soft blocking like this is weak and it is a problem until they’re defederated.
When I said blocking here I meant in the meaning defederating.
On mastodon you'd mute users if you want them to still see your posts, and block them to cut them off. Not aure how that works on Lemmy, but I was referring to defederation. :)
gotcha… i misunderstood….
if you personally block someone on lemmy you just mute them. they can still see and comment on anything you post, but you won’t see it.
to me that’s almost worse.
i want my blocks to mean they can’t see me at all.
Yeah, real moderation needs to happen on the instance level for sure. :)