I posted news about Gnome + Shaman employee and it got deleted. It was legit article..
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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This is exactly what I'm talking about.
OK, I did a search for "Gnome foundation shaman" and that led down a rabbithole of WTF. What the hell are they thinking with this person?
Apparently it's disinformation
re: Gnome and professional shaman – that one was pointed out pretty quickly as being misinformation (known troll with an archive.org post dated an hour before their “prank”)
Can you explain how exactly the evidence was created? Did some people create fake pages months in advance?
from the post debunking it, it was that it wasn’t “months in advance” that was the giveaway – for a website that she was supposed to have been using for several years for her business, the only snapshot archive.org had was dated an hour before the accusations started getting posted
Ah, I was thinking about the claimed social media pages though. I'm currently at "work" so I can't verify yet.
Could you link to information on this -specifically on any work debunking it. I can’t seem to find any in the usual places, in fact googling shows stuff like https://youtu.be/NrzseZQotu4?si=1rQtbo9mwfAEt4sL which seems to corroborate the weirder claims. I suppose the channel might be part of it.
Having said that, this sure feels like a troll and it would be pretty funny if it were. Thanks!
According to the modlog, most things get removed for "Trolling" or "Misinformation": https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14701
Who gets to decide what is misinformation?
Janitors
😂
I don't believe that log is complete. Either way there are a few posts there that got deleted for no reason:
I'm curious why you think the log is incomplete? And the screenshots contain reasons, so I'm unsure what you mean by they got deleted for no reason.
Because I've seen posts posted to [email protected] removed that aren't on the log. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Incoming deletion in 3... 2... 1...
In general, I find that a lot of communities have overly strict rules. I posted a news article a while back to c/news and they deleted it because it was "not us news". At the moment I forget what the article was, but it was definitely of interest to us citizens, it just happened outside the US. Things like that have happened so often that I'm less likely to even try to post stuff
Why isn't the community called USNews then?
Because they were making Reddit 2.0, with all the same flaws.
I agree. I actually had no idea it was US news. Yes I know we should read rules and all but that seems like a stupid rule
The best part is seeing these US defaultisms on lemmy.WORLD.
Yeah true. And in this case they were so adamant about it being us centric that they didn't care that it was one of those stories that impacts the us in a significant way...
And a instance of Netherlands
lemmy.world isnt even hosted in the USA
The balls of naming a community "news" and removing stuff that isn't of interest to a small fraction of the world population on an instance that should represent the whole world.
I guess it largely depends on the instance and user. Federation allows things to talk but users and their home instances still have ownership of the data. So if a user removes it it’s gone. If the instance goes away it’s gone.
At least that’s my basic understanding. I haven’t had the time to really explore how everything works and do a deep dive. So if I’m wrong someone please correct me!
Last one I saw was from lemmy.world and the user didn't delete his post.