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Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes
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This might actually end up being a good thing. If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us. It seems bad, but there are a lot of people willing to correct their misinformation.
On the flipside, why are people still using facebook? It's like 90% AI slop these days.
I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone https://gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I'm all ~~ears~~ eyes.
I asked the attendees about how they'd feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don't want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.
Are they old people?
There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don't think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.