leecalvin

Good answer and I admire your thinking here. I can think of a few times some long held beliefs got debunked or the original studies or articles were retracted.

I never really understood why people can't piece together the information that is presented to them instead of just taking things at face value. Is media literacy not taught at all in schools? You can read anything on the internet and use your rational mind (if you are educated so) to filter out the truths. If you can't verify something just find other sources saying the same thing, at least then perhaps you can work off probabilities/likelihood.

I know many people read on like a 10th grade level, so I guess I see the importance of trust, as those people likely just read headlines and not the content, and definitely don't analyse.

Not sure what you mean with "reliable." Non-biased? The articles on, I think all the ones I mentioned, are written by journalists or academics.

And when I say Mainstream I just mean the more well known ones that everyone knows already.

There are other sources besides the big mainstream ones, such as The Walrus, The Tyee, The Conversation, Rabble, Canadian Dimension, and others I'm probably forgetting.

I suspect it's partially to do with the Activitypub protocol itself, at least how it's implemented by Mastodon, which most other software treat as the de-facto standard. Someone brought this up to Eugen on Mastodon where the guy was showing the different amount of boosts and what not. I remember it being different on every server the guy showed screenshots from, on the same post.

Wish I could find the thread, but Eugen basically said it's not a big concern to him and didn't sound like it would be fixed.

What's a tweet?

There's plenty of housing. Just not affordable housing. Each of these McMansions in the suburbs can probably host 3 families.

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I think they should.

Hopefully your home instance has rules that facilitate having a safe space online regardless of where you are posting to.

Otherwise if you are doing something like promoting "othering" or denying the Holocaust or the moon landing, etc, you may end up getting your instance banned from federating with servers where the mods don't like what you're posting.

Buying a bike. I had one before but it was stolen and couldn't afford to buy a new one. I got a new job though that pays much more than my old job so hoping to finally get back to cycling.

This should get ranked up now as now it's just hilarious.

This is so sad. To be computer illiterate is like being reading illiterate back in the 1800s. Sadly I recognise all the truth in this post and I'm going to have to put up with this kind of thing a lot as I'm moving into an IT help desk role... (FML?).