• mateomaui@reddthat.comOP
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    1 year ago

    Quite the broad stroke you have there. Not everyone on Twitter is peddling conspiracies. Sure it’s a dumpster fire, but there is an actual science community with noteworthy people still making worthwhile contributions to the conversation in that space against all odds. Etc.

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      It doesn’t matter if it’s everyone or noone, because the mechanisms to make the determination if it is or not are being removed.

      This devalues all of that conversation.

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        Entirely false, I cannot believe so many people actually believe this. There are so many people with actual verified respectable reputations going under their own names there that I cannot possibly take you seriously.

        edit: as I said to someone else here:

        I mean, let’s see here, how many credible people can I think of on Lemmy?

        Not a single one, because we’re all anonymous random people. The only shred of credibility here is sharing something a fairly well validated website or news source… exactly like on Twitter. You act like no one on here posts questionable things that get removed. That is selective delusion for you.

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          Right but without verification I can go be David Attenborough and there’s not much way to figure it out, unless there’s another person claiming to be Attenborough.

          The less famous and in the media a person is, the harder it is to know if their account is legitimate.

          Depending on community driven accountability without tools means that new community members have no idea what is credible, only what is popular. That can be gamed, whereas accountability and reputation won’t be.

          The loss of tools doesn’t negate existing reputation, it diminishes the ability to build reputation, and the community will continue to atrophy.

          Taking such an extreme stance is a bit histrionic, try less relying on extremes and personal attacks like “delusional”

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        Well it’s a good thing that reality doesn’t revolve around your opinion.

        edit: I mean, let’s see here, how many credible people can I think of on Lemmy?

        Not a single one, because we’re all anonymous random people. The only shred of credibility here is sharing something a fairly well validated website or news source… exactly like on Twitter. You act like no one on here posts questionable things that get removed. That is selective delusion for you.

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          how many credible people can I think of on Lemmy?

          Nobody’s arguing there are credible people here on lemmy, that’s a strawman you’ve set up.

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            False. The implication is that information shared by people not on Twitter, such as here, is more credible than information shared by someone on Twitter.

            Try harder, you idiots are boring.

            edit:

            Also, the stupidity of the assertion that no one on Twitter has credibility is enhanced by the raw fact that possibly every single person who writes the articles that are shared here on Lemmy from sources deemed trustworthy by some percentage of you also happen to have Twitter accounts. At some point, it becomes an inherently ignorant argument.

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                Hey, fucktard, you can always block me if you can’t handle it. I block annoying people on here too, it’s really no big deal.

                Apparently you cannot read, because I’ve expressly said under this post that it’s a dumpster fire, so obviously I don’t “like it so much”, dumbass.

                What I’m arguing against, if you’re capable of removing your head from your colon long enough to comprehend something, is the clear assertion made here

                that anyone who has a presence on Twitter has no credibility. TruthSocial? Sure I’ll agree with that, but it’s ignorant and dismissive of all the upstanding people who were on Twitter before Elon took over, and who actually have a loyal following or are part of communities that they chose not to ditch to go somewhere else.

                I’m pretty sure for all us random nobodies, including you, it was no big deal to switch, but that’s not actually a valid reason to malign everyone still on twitter as having zero credibility.

                Fuck off if you don’t like it. You don’t have to endure my presence, asswipe. The block button is right there for you to use, just like on Twitter.

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                  You said, multiple times in different terms:

                  The implication is that information shared by people not on Twitter, such as here, is more credible than information shared by someone on Twitter.

                  No one made that implication except you, fucknuts! Just like I’ve said mulitple times: you’re the one making up these “implications” in your head, you’re the one crafting these strawmen, and then you’re the one that’s all bent out of shape!

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                    If you’re too dumb to understand even with a provided screenshot, then you’re too dumb to be part of the conversation.

                    I’m sorry your comprehension level is this poor.

                    edit: what’s funny is that you’re coming back almost 24 hours later to continue arguing about it, and I’m the one bent out of shape about something? LOL