I am but a cog in a machine. A lazy one though.

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    6 months ago

    I’m happy someone is pointing this out. There is so much trash out there that is just maximised for “citation count” because that’s how you get recognition in academia.

    One more thing for folks who don’t know: peer reviewed doesn’t always mean someone actually verified shit, let alone read it all.

    I’m not saying don’t believe scientists or that the whole research field is a hoax, I just am severely disappointed in the broader scientific community.







  • With how federation works it does really help investigating vote manipulation cases.

    There is a user who is super active on a community and was consistently getting downvoted with 10-15 downvotes, making sure certain post filters would never show this content on all feed. All the downvoters were the same on every post, they were from a new instance that has/had no web frontend and none had comment history.








  • Throwing this out there in case you are just scrolling through “all”:

    Your instance is small and you won’t see content from communities no one on your instance has subscribed to. An example:

    I see posts from a community on “all” that I haven’t subsribed to, but someone on my instance has subsscribed to said community. Otherwise we on sopuli would not be fetching updates from those communities and I wouldn’t see it on “all”.

    There is a project (forgot name) that makes bots on instance subscribe to new communities from an instance but not sure if it’s still working/set up on your instance.