[kwlug-disc] Trust in Musk.. or go to NextCloud

[CrankyOldBugger]

I do think that you're on to something there, Eva, with community-based
fact checking.  But the problems that you'd have to overcome are
immeasurable.  Bottom line, I think, is that corrupt people will still find
some way to game the system.  For example, if we were able to have
everything cross-referenced again Wikipedia (I'm over-simplifying here)
then who's to say that a bunch of right-wing nutballs won't overload
Wikipedia with their "facts"?  That's just one thought off of the top of my
head.

But yes, some form of community based fact checking would be great.  But
only if we can get it to work right.



On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 1:48 PM Eva B <eva at diyode.com> wrote:

> True
> Maybe there could be some sort of indicator of convergence around ideas
> that currently exist. They may show tendencies of different platforms. Meta
> data of platforms may lead to insights no possible without the analyses.
>
> On Fri., Nov. 11, 2022, 1:41 p.m. Chris Frey, <cdfrey at foursquare.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 01:31:24PM -0500, Eva B wrote:
>> > Hmmmm....
>> > I wonder if key words could trigger an encyclopedic database, something
>> > like wikipedia, not just for reference of community driven information,
>> but
>> > to show leanings based on the content of the post. Maybe with AI.
>>
>> An encyclopdeia is still an authority, and while it would be useful
>> from the sender's perspective ("Hi! I'm clippy, and I noticed you're
>> sending something that is counter-documented in the latest wikipedia.
>> Do you have sources?  Are you sure?   Yes/No") it doesn't help from
>> the reader's perspective, who may be looking for answers to questions
>> that currenly have no official answers.
>>
>> I.e. Galileo would not have been helped by old twitter fact checking.
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>>
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