"News"week is a fucking trainwreck these days. Pointless to look at them any more.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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Fuck this russian asset traitor POS.
yet another post where the title says "Trump To Actually Be Held Responsible For Crimes Committed On Live TV" and the article is just people who ahve nothing to do with either Trump or the law guessing that someone could possibly do something with no idea as to whether anyone will actually do anything. It's raw speculation and it degrades the platform, but anything that says "Trump Good" or "Trump Bad" will of course get a million upvotes.
Feels like I'm back on fucking Reddit.
Welcome to the new Newsweek. It's shit so consistently, I no longer click.
To be honest, I find myself reading them more. Their goals are to drive clicks more than political ideals. It's garbage, but consistent garbage with minimal bias compared to most other options. At least you know where they stand...
That article was quite the incoherent circlejerk
I don't blame the community, I blame the media. The media needs to generate views to sell eyeballs. They need to keep you clicking and watching by saying that the resolution is just around the corner. If they waited to report on things that actually happened nobody would care.
Feels like I’m back on fucking Reddit.
DISCLAIMER: This is a complete tangent from comments on the original post, but the original post is likely garbage anyway so I'll just go with it.
I don't know why people think that creating a copy-cat version of Reddit with "federation" will do much of anything to solve the problems with online "communities".
The problem with Reddit may have been partially the for-profit corporate part, or the admins, etc but it was definitely not exclusively those things.
Every single online "community" that has popped up since Web 2.0 has versions of the exact same problems. Maybe they're difficult to solve inherently, but I am not sure because it seems like everyone just creates the same site structure and I think at least some of it has to do with the structure.
Is there anyone trying to not make the next Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or Reddit? Someone that's trying to actually make something different? Like something useful or with a fundamentally better moderation model? Because if so maybe I should waste my time on that instead of these copycat platforms.
It's not just "they're bots" or "they're Russians" either...because Nextdoor has a pretty stringent verification policy, is based around localities, and it's still essentially Facebook for NIMBYs.
this headline is just false.
Screw Trump but this whole article is nothing more than conjecture from two dudes on twitter. When the hell did stuff like this become news?
FR when the first source is a post on Twitter, get fucked.
When we stopped funding news
You mean with quarters, at the newspaper stand?
Seizing properties? Yeah, right. I’ll believe it once it’s already happened.
Wtf is that user submitted fairness meter at the bottom? Since when do we rely on trolls to provide any reliable metrics about quality of writing?
Not to mention the going along with the "centrist equals fair" bullshit that media outlet owners and other rich people love to perpetuate🤦
Just say that every article has a far-right bias so that they eventually over-correct in the other direction.
Since it was deemed profitable to do so. Every vote is an ad impression and trying to manipulate or correct the value just means even more ad impressions.
Look at the site on mobile with no filters and it's immediately obvious that they are in the enshitification business, not news.
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