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Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse (old.reddit.com)
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When we have a critical mass of people, we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way.

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[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way

  1. In my experience, many of the people claiming to be experts on reddit are spreading misinformation. This goes for Twitter too, and probably most other large social media sites. People love to be seen as an authority on a topic.
  2. Reddit is anything but organic, and is getting worse and worse in this regard.
[–] Keegen@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The eye opening moment is when one of these threads touches on a subject you know a lot about and the top upvoted comment is spouting complete bullshit. See it once and you start to doubt the credibility of every other highly upvoted comment that looks legit but could be just as wrong, you simply don't know enough to immediately disprove it.

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