Can you give the rundown on what happened for us newer people.
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jeffw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh dear god not this argument again
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 2 months ago
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.
The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Oh. Thank you for the concise rundown.
vatlark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess I had missed it the first time
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
account age 1 year 8 months
LOL, not a chance unless you were straight-up absent that whole time.
vatlark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Relative to your impressive comment and post count, it appears I was.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Ew.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
"Ew"what? The fighting over MBFC was a big deal for a long time. If he was here, it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have noticed it.
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right, I almost forgot about the rage against the MBFC bot that went on for like MONTHS lmao. Seeing it downvoted to hell was hilarious though lol
nnullzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tbh I didn’t even mind what the bot was trying to do. I just remember opening what felt like every post and seeing dozens of lines taken up by the bot. I ended up just blocking it and cross-referencing with ground news myself.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Ground News makes you think American conservatives are centrists.