A well backed as usual peice by Benn Jordan on the basics of how misinformation farms work according to their own internal documentation, the goal of creating a post truth world, and why a sizable percentage of twitter users start talking about OpenAi’s terms of service every time they update it.

  • dan@upvote.au
    4·
    1 month ago

    Thanks for the info! I didn’t know about the Fediseer project - I don’t think it existed when I created my Mastodon and Lemmy servers, or I just wasn’t aware of it.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      1 month ago

      It’s been out for the past year. It’s all word of mouth but a lot of instances have fediseer badges to draw attention to it.

      • dan@upvote.au
        3·
        1 month ago

        Thanks for maintaining it! I signed up, now I just need to see if anyone’s willing to guarantee my single-user Lemmy instance. Not adding my Mastodon since I don’t know if I’ll even keep running it.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          1 month ago

          FYI when you request a guarantee, you can specify another instance to solicit a guarantee from. They will get a PM to inform them.

          Generally getting people to guarantee for others consistently has been the biggest struggle on fediseer >_<