In your opinion, which platform do you trust the most and the least?
Personally, I find it difficult to determine the best one, but I can confidently say the platform I trust the least, as I’ve encountered the most fake users there.
• The least I trust: Facebook
• The most I trust: (maybe?) Reddit
What about you?
More importantly. Why is reddit more trustworthy? I think maybe because each sub has their own human guardians. Hyperbole is discouraged. vs LI / Face / X etc. Where hyperbole and anti truth works like flypaper, and algos go wild. On reddit, if you hyperbole, or make engagement-bate posts, you will not even be able to post it because the admins will remove it for not being newsworthy.
@sentry_co They are very strict that's the truth but on this media, I have never received such kind of scam. It is well moderated but as you said, very hard to push something through certain communities. Too much clustering (bubbles, echo chambers) so this way the information are for me more decluttered and when I start to understand how each of those individual communities thinks, the information is better sorted for me.
But as I said, this is valid for me, not for others that's why I asked.
@busmark_w_nika Problem with non-reddit SoMe's is that anti-truth is encouraged, because it creates more controversy. If I say something that is not true, it will get 100x views because people will react to it emotionally. Reddit rewrads newsworthyness. Hence why its a better source of truth. But this can change. If other SoMes finetune their algos to favour newsworthyness over controversy for controversy sake. I think it will happen. I think people are tiered of the drama.
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Ha ha - I trust X and Reddit the most, rest all are very spammy and artificial - I find reddit most authentic
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