General Discussion Thread

[Legend]

After a community note is posted, twitter is going back and alerting people who liked/shared the tweet

Wow I've been dreaming about fact checking like this for years. "Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it" has been the case forever and the internet sure hasn't helped. Hopefully more websites start doing stuff like this because it's pretty much the only way to combat it.

[the-pi-guy]

Good to see some good changes with Twitter.

[Legend]

Good to see some good changes with Twitter.

Community notes aren't perfect but they have so much potential.

How do other platforms deal with misinformation? I only use youtube and reddit so those are the only ones I can compare it to. Youtube just puts generic info boxes on videos if certain topics are discussed. It's better than nothing but it's really lame having them even on good videos. Like a science video will talk about the Moon landing as a very factual thing yet the video will still have a disclaimer about the Moon landing being real.

Reddit is probably the worst. Haven't visited the front page for months but in the past it was filled with blatant misinformation. The top voted comments would be correcting it yet unless you clicked on the thread you'd have no idea. Took them years to finally ban one prominent bot account that would reach the front page with nearly every post.

[the-pi-guy]

The only other one I know of is Facebook:



I'm not even completely sure if they still do this, I haven't seen anything tagged recently.

But it's a little bit better than YouTube, because the information is specific, but doesn't do much more than that.

[the-pi-guy]

I'm getting a lot of YouTube ads trying to sell me right wing propaganda books for kids. Almost every single ad today has been from the same people.

[kitler53]

gosh darn,.. it's crazy how absurdly bad the internet can be in knowledgeable hands.

[Legend]

It was cold so I kept a wood fire going for three days. Crazy new record for me.

[Legend]

Love this feature ???? pic.twitter.com/dl9IcMshvT

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2023

That's cool.

[Legend]

Haha random thing I remembered.

~15 years ago I wrote a movie script. It's a really cool sci fi story that leans pretty heavily on Avatar, but the funny thing is that I called it "Insurrection." Gonna need a new name if I ever return to it lol.

Really funny part is that I got the year right. The teaser trailer said it'd release in 2021  8)


edt: had fun going through old videos back then. I made a fair amount of low quality shorts and I miss doing stuff like that. The governator throwing dead Davy Jones off a cliff, rendered with paper cutouts? A classic.

[the-pi-guy]

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[Legend]

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Exactly

[kitler53]

Exactly

that was the point. 

[the-pi-guy]

Was trying to share an image, but I can't figure out how to embed Reddits weird images.

Elon was asking why Wikipedia needs money, since all the text they have could fit on your phone.

Community notes swooped in and corrected him.

[Legend]

Was trying to share an image, but I can't figure out how to embed Reddits weird images.

Elon was asking why Wikipedia needs money, since all the text they have could fit on your phone.

Community notes swooped in and corrected him.

The community note was removed because it was incorrect (unless this is a different image)



Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

51 GB is just from "As of May 2015, the current version of the English Wikipedia article / template / redirect text was about 51 GB uncompressed in XML format."

And 428 TB is just from "As of August 2023, Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias contained 96,519,778 files, totalling 470,991,810,222,099 bytes (428.36 TB)."

A community note explaining that the funding goes to a lot of things besides just hosting wikipedia would be good, but that community note was rushed.


I actually like Wikimedia Commons a lot more than wikipedia these days. It's a great source for public domain content and it has fun stuff like an orangutan mimicking a human talk.

Meanwhile while wikipedia is great at quickly getting an overview of a subject (how else would I find that orangutan video), its quality keeps going downhill. Just yesterday an article mentioned something really interesting so I checked the source to learn more. The source was an unrelated article that just had a single throw away line mentioning this detail as a fact. How is that useful?

[Legend]

What the fudge is this? Reddit - Dive into anything

Some metajoke I'm not getting or did I just stumble into 100 thousand people that think you can literally travel to different realities by sleeping?