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For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
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He must be the most downvoted user by a large margin at this point right?
I would be curious to know, but I don't see a way to check that in the Lemmy API. Would need some way of searching user data based on criteria.
Hey, I might be able to help you out here. I'm pretty sure this can be figured out if one has access to the underlying raw vote data. Which all instance admins do (more or less).
So running this SQL query on my pyfedi instance,
select user_name, sum(effect) from post_reply_vote v inner join "user" u on u.id = v.author_id group by user_name order by sum(effect) asc;
The first two rows,
UniversalMonk | -23315
MediaBiasFactChecker | -19231
So this account is indeed the most downvoted (or at least the most downvoted that my instance knows about). Interestingly enough the MediaBiasFactChecker bot is the 2nd most downvoted instance.
Number 3 is a human afaik and shows up as -4147 so the margin between this account and the next most downvoted human is indeed a very large one.
haha wow! Thanks for that. So apparently I could just run my own instance to get access to that data... cool, but raises questions. :/ Does it also federate more private data, like DMs?
This is a bit new to me, as I actually have never tried a DM since I started self-hosting an instance (and as far as I know, no one has tried to DM me).
But from https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/117834 it seems that DMs on Lemmy are indeed federated - albeit to the minimum required (your instance and the instance of the person you are DMing - so for example, with me being on a single user instance, I would never see these get federated over unless someone was trying to DM me). So they don't get federated outward if DMs are going on between users on the same instance.
Fortunately that also points to a workaround - using Element.io and Matrix to send secure messages between users (when you don't want even the instance admins or Element.io or Matrix admins to see the message contents).
My only experience sending DMs on the fediverse was with a kbin.social account, but from what I recall that was for local users only (so I could DM someone else who had a kbin.social account but not someone who had a mastodon.social account, for example).