It may be that Wikipedia, and links thereto, are sufficient. If we're not a walled garden, we don't need to replicate everything inside a wall.
I have no problem with community notes, and they're certainly a good way of improving Twitter. I'm just not sure that's a worthwhile effort, when we have an actual world out here, that responds well to creative input.
@woody Right, Wikipedia is great, but that requires people to question what they read online and do their own research, which, sadly, does not apply to everyone.
Especially with Meta/Threads joining the fediverse, it would be helpful to have tools that can prevent misinformation from spreading.
@woody Or I suppose moderators could simply delete posts that contain misinformation, although some might argue that's too heavy-handed, or at least in some situations.
@stefan that's a really bad idea. The only way I can think of that it can be done is by allowing the admin to choose such community members. And it'll only be shown in that instance.
Random admins, with random moderators, deciding what is right and what is wrong. What can possibly go wrong!
@hirad Yes, I noted elsewhere in the replies that maybe just giving admins/moderators a way to annotate a post might be a sufficient, maybe even a better solution.
Those are the people who can already decide to delete a post, so some level of trust should already be there.
@hirad If the note is only visible on the instance it was posted to, that might not be enough to prevent misinformation from spreading. For example, someone can sign up on a small, less moderated instance, post from there, coordinate with people on larger instances to boost the message, and drown out any replies that have a correct information.
@hirad I don't think the fediverse is at a scale and popularity yet that we have to worry about this, but we've seen some big spam attacks already, so I think we might want to start thinking ahead.
@stefan but "some" level of trust isn't enough. Yes, one might believe his instance admin is a fair and reasonable person. But doesn't mean he trust him on every political, social, scientific, etc etc topic.
@Stefan Bohacek And ideally, this would not be another home-brew, non-standard, only-compatible-with-itself Mastodon solution but something built entirely against the ActivityPub standard.
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