Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I just realized now that Reddit’s gone, I don’t have any of those. Which is good, because I think all the usual social media are going to become steadily more unbearable the closer we get to US elections.

      I actually took several week breaks from Reddit the last couple of election years, and because I used to open up each thread in a separate tab, as soon as a thread devolved into politics and took the predictable turn into trolls/bots/shills I just closed the tab and moved on to the next. But given the changes in just the last three years on Reddit alone, even that wouldn’t be enough.

      I think I got out just in time. For my own sanity, anyway. There is just no upside that I can think of to letting my brain be exposed to that level of mindfuckery and propagandistic delivery tactics day in and day out anymore, so I shamelessly avoid as much of the contentious political shit as I can. I highly recommend it, lol.

    • Steeve@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Yes, and stay on Lemmy, the totally unmoderated version of those filled with Russian and CCP propaganda.

        • Steeve@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          If you’re going to compare it to corporations like Meta who spend billions per year on platform moderation then yes, it’s absolutely unmoderated. Even compared to the shitty volunteer moderation of Reddit, which at least has mod tools. If Lemmy was big enough to be noticed by the media it’d be right up there on that list of misinformation spreaders, because that’s just what social media is.

          I like Lemmy better than those platforms, I’m here after all, but saying get off those other platforms from a platform that has the same problems is the pot calling the kettle black

          • ItsGhost@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I think it’s also worth bearing in mind there that the average fedi user currently is well aware of the lack of platform level moderation, both the good and the bad that come with that.