Why does the "Media Bias Fact Checker" - Bot gets downvoted so much lately? - eviltoast

No comments or anything, just lots of Downvotes.

  • jonne@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    And 3., the blurb it posts is gigantic compared to what you’d actually want to know.

    Also 4. The media bias website has its own bias in that centre right outlets like CNN are classified as left.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Oh so Media Bias is from the USA and believes that anything that isn’t Republican is left 😂

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      The blurb being gigantic is my main gripe. I use Sync, which includes a thumbnail of each link. The bot is wordy as fuck and links 5 different things. So every time I go the comments section, it looks like this:

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        That looks like a terrible app. Voyager shows it as a collapsed post with like 1-2 lines of text unless you click on it.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          It’s configurable. I personally think Sync is the best Lemmy app out there. I started with Jerboa then Voyager, and feel that Sync is by far the most polished. It’s not FOSS though, so I get that it has a bad rep here. Personally I’m happy to pay a bit to the dev to support his awesome work for something I use for far too many hours every day.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        You can disable the big block previews in the sync settings. Or just block the bot. Or use the Lemmy option to just not show you bot accounts.

        Genuinely not trying to be an asshole, those are all options. I like the bot but I understand how not everyone might. These are options to prevent dealing with it without yanking it out of everyone’s hands.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, I get those are options. I just like having thumbnails for most everything else, since I hate clicking little text links on mobile. I used to use RiF back in the day and that was always painful for me.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m sorry but CNN being center right is definitely an indication of your own bias in our Lemmy echo chamber. Relative to the masses, it’s about center left but still shows significant pro-left coverage.

      Say what you want about there being a former no-kidding US communist party or that other country’s police systems make the whole US system right wing, but relative to the US (which mediabiasfactcheck is designed for) it is left. I was so impressed by the site many years ago when all the things I thought were centrist turned out to be biased toward my political beliefs. That’s what truth feels like