Still, what about citations of articles that themselves contain hallucinated citations? It’s a food chain problem.

I guess what I’m saying is the checking should be more… accessible? And less costly, hence machine automatable. This would increase the quality of journals that, for whatever reason, don’t do enough human verification, and it would allow bigger journals to do deeper checks “down the chain” with the same labor.

Then machine checking should be implemented

Whatever needs to be restructured to make citations automatically verifiable needs to happen, and then this will be less of an issue.

The citation format needs an overhaul.

Make citations hyperlinked and publicly accessible. Past a certain date (2004?), make it mandatory. And if the research is mega paywalled, well… perhaps we should do something about that, too.

Then they’d be machine-verifiable.

The system has been dysfunctional. As it is elsewhere, the convenience of AI fraud/slop is simply exacerbating the existing issue to breaking points.

iOS still smuggles in “western” influence and culture through the App Store, though. You can see it in broadcasts from the younger generation.

Shutting out Apple (and Google) could get Russia’s population in a situation somewhere between North Korea and China, where the whole premise of a mobile OS is careful state-sanctioned control, as opposed to managed foreign influence that’s too inconvenient to yank. A whitelist, instead of a blacklist.

Russia would love an excuse to boot Apple out, and thus completely control the phone ecosystem. For every popular app that gets banned, thousands still “slip through.”

Hence I don’t hate on them for complying.

Selfish? Yes. But when you consider what would replace Apple, their presence is more damaging to Putin’s regime than pulling out would be.

Very cool site.

My conspiracy theory is they have so much dirt on the finance world that it gives them leverage.

What if there were to be a “data breach” of what they’ve been subscribe too…

OF has killed off the vast majority of ppl just doing it for fun.

With Instragram as the “creator front page.” Patreon too, on the digital art side.

It’s so weird how OF gets to pretend it isn’t a porn site, and somehow get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site.

That’s being a leader.

Not playing the victim, not complaining or raging about the IOC one bit. Just acceptance, and pointing out courage, with integrity.

Whatever our technofeudal future may be, I hope Zelensky and all of Ukraine make it into history books as an ideal to strive for. And not “leaders” crying like bullies on Twitter.

Name checks out?

It’s propaganda, period.

Every top news post in .world is some tabloid outlet, reposting another source, and mods do nothing about it.

Normally, I’m fine with that “old internet” feel of craziness flying around everywhere, but mimicking Reddit’s structure so closely makes things feel less diverse/discoverable, and more like echo chambers blotting out the sun… which is exactly how previous Reddit alternatives died.

Eh, nothing new. For the past few years I’ve had to shop though manufacturer spec pages anyway.

Retailers know most shoppers aren’t careful, though.

It’s often pricey now, too.

A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself.

If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?

I agree with the sentiment but disagree with the prognosis.

In my experience, the ragebait articles around here are largely from the same sites. Rawstory, mediaite, dailybeast, some of The Guardian’s more indulgent pieces. I won’t presume to know why the posters post them, but they’re ragebait to start.

I don’t even see “Big Media” like Reuters or local news or whatever get upvoted much. And as longs as the news sections aren’t mixed up with the opinion ones, IMO they’re more professional.

The accurate title rule is great as long as posters pick more journalistic articles instead of opinion pieces or reposts. And if they don’t there’s no fixing that anyway.

I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles

And I straight up I disagree with this.

There are tons of talking heads with opinions. But journalism rooted in sourcing is much harder. That should come first, or at least come with an opinion in the OP, and then the discussion can be built around facts.

Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked, as well as a pure bot community or two.

But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun, reducing diversity; it does no good leaving it in my feed.

I like Lemmy as a “zoo”

I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.

Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.

It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t steeped in it either.

This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. Perverse engagement incentives need to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise Lemmy/Piefed will end up like Voat and all the other Reddit clones.

On the contrary, I’ve made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don’t seem to gain traction.

I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, very well. The community seems to be content with that, and Lemmy/Piefed devs aren’t structuring the site the counter it.

I have some posts/interests that I think would get some visibility. In my case, it really is executive dysfunction, heh.

Not that you’re wrong. And, unfortunately, its a ludicrously profitable highway outside of the Fediverse.