Didn't you know? It's like the #1 mantra of most conservatives. Eesh. Even I know what you are supposed to hate more than you do. It's not like I haven't heard it enough from the mouths of your political leaders.
These fact checking posts have been done by CNN since the age of time and have been fairly even when calling out bad information.
It still doesn't negate the fact that CNN is still on your "fake news" list.
What happened to CNN being "fake news"? CNN is probably lying here too, right? Odd that this would be in a conservative community, but it is just too tempting not to post because of confirmation bias, I suppose.
This post just shows how oblivious most propagandists are to cognitive dissonance.
"Your TV has become a digital billboard."
It's been a digital billboard for at least 40 years of my life. Radio was no different, so be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Have you never seen a commercial before? Cheap subsidized hardware? Bloatware loaded on phones? Bloatware on TVs? Games that require 5 mins of ad time? Google's crippling of Chrome to break ad blockers? Unskippable ads on YouTube? Sponsored ad spots in YouTube videos? All the 3rd party logos on Smart TV boxes? Product placements in movies? Ad placements before the movie starts? The list goes on.
The entire entertainment industry is based around advertising. Every delivery platform is designed to show you ads first and entertainment second.
People have problems figuring that out?
Same. This has been a consistent bug for a while, and I suspect that there is a delay on the instance side that is partially to blame.
Yep. It takes a ton of work and time to build a community that will attract more people who generate content.
With every shit move that Reddit pulls, it pushes more people to Lemmy. While I have zero intentions of being as active on Lemmy as I was on Reddit, I have still racked up a couple thousand comments or so over the last year. Even that interaction generates content, but it's still only a tiny contribution.
TBH, I just shifted what kind of content I consumed. That did come at the price of doing without some types for the time being. However, the interaction with other users is generally much better here. Many people stay here on Lemmy because of that and honestly, I feel that is a much better experience.
What I am saying is that Lemmy is getting bigger, but it will probably take another five or so years to get the momentum Reddit had ten years ago. It'll happen because it's just a matter of time before Reddit is purely investor driven and all value is completely extracted. (It's just like how Facebook is mostly for old people now.)
It's done here on Lemmy, but it's easy to miss on some clients and it's controlled by the bot creators, strangely enough.
The creator of the first (extremely noisy) bot-clone communities was kind of a dick and wouldn't highlight posts as bot generated. He had good intentions, but really bad delivery.
We need to build communities here, but that takes time. What I have personally seen is that many niche communities that are on Reddit just fail with Lemmy. (I suspect that most of that is because of the lack of algorithmic boosting.)
I am not saying cross posting from Reddit is a bad thing, btw. It's my personal preference to read actual user content where I can interact with OP. It's highly likely that "fake" content just doesn't pull my dopamine triggers the same way, s'all.
Content is here, but it's generated at a much slower pace. Honestly, that is much more healthy for me.
Someone tried that and even duplicated the usernames of commenters on Reddit. The idea was to facilitate the transition to Lemmy and people could just pickup where they left off.
It backfired in many ways. Some of the first communities cloned were tech support related and people would spend their time giving answers to bots without realizing it.
It still is a thing, but I just mute those communities. They usually have zero participation by Lemmy anyway.
If I wanted to see Reddit content, I would go to Reddit.
That would be you and your nationalist wanna-be propagandist buddies on this community.