Biases, Belief and Information: How does one decide?

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Does saidit contain post/s with misinformation or as we know it now as fake news?

How can we know the answer? No one here has a crystal ball? There is very likely to be some that are misinformation, simply due to the volume of posts, as you'd see on any social media.

I agree it's a problem, and I don't have an answer either. All I know is that having non-sold-out admins is better than having sold-out admins, hence the creation of saidit. That's the foundation of the new security from censorship that the site offers, but again there is no way we can pretend to be arbiters of truth, we are just humans like anyone else.

I'm not sure there is a silver bullet to solve the misinformation problem, but there seem to be many smaller solutions that help.

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    [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    How is a new Saidit person to assess how unsold-out the admins are or are not?

    Well for starters, on reddit if you challenge an admin in any serious way, they will ban you just for speaking your mind. That won't really happen on saidit. Furthermore on reddit the mods will sometimes escalate to the admins, which is why I'm magnora7 instead of magnora, because they kept banning me site-wide just for speaking my mind.

    On saidit, if there is a ban-heavy mod, the admins here (me and d3rr) would be more likely to get rid of the mod than support them. That's why having non-sold-out admins matters, big time. Because reddit is corrupted from the top down, which, if given enough time, results in a completely corrupted mod structure.

    There is not going to be a silver bullet, but we're doing our best to right the wrongs of reddit and learn from what went wrong so we can protect this site and give it longevity.