No comments or anything, just lots of Downvotes.

  • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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    113 months ago

    Here’s an analogy:

    The alternative to drinking bleach is not drinking bleach. As opposed to drinking “diet bleach,” or something equally ridiculous.

    Why do you feel it would need to be replaced?

    • @NOT_RICK
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      23 months ago

      Because not everyone has strong media literacy. I may have the means to assess the quality of a source on my own but that’s not the case for everyone. This problem will hopefully solve itself with more users on Lemmy who can call out bad sources but right now it’s not uncommon to find posts with zero comments minus the bias bot.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          13 months ago

          Which is why I just asked if anyone knew of any alternatives. I will say, I’m at a minimum that the bot has people talking about how news should be vetted, at least.