Problems with ProjectEUNOMIA

1) sinister as fuck name, irrelevant to discussions but it wouldn't have hurt them to call it Project Fluffy Bunnies or something

2) anything they build will just move the problem from people blindly believing anything they read to people blindly believing anything they read that has a green checkmark or whatever next to it which doesn't solve the original problem

3) obvious abuse potential of anything they build

also misinformation isn't an internet problem

people have been spreading misinformation since we climbed down from the proverbial trees and probably a bit before then

it's a critical thinking problem, and you can't solve that with software

@troubleMoney YES!!!!!

you can only solve it with the way you approach child education

@InspectorCaracal @troubleMoney Yes, education works to a good extent. #EUNOMIA aims to get people involved in the process too. Imagine if people didn't just ignore a piece of info that they feel certain to be untrustworthy, but did something about it. Now what that something will look like (i.e., just a "trust / don't trust this post" vote or something else), we need the help of the fediverse to determine. Hence, going public so crazily early, before even having a prototype to show to you.

@neudre @InspectorCaracal I'm certainly imagining that

Doing it as well actually by calling out a project that's untrustworthy and, even if it were trustworthy, entirely missing the point by trying to build a technological solution to a social problem

I hope we of the fediverse have been helpful to you in determining that that's what we do here

@troubleMoney @InspectorCaracal You make very fair points, but I feel you are dismissing completely the pursuit of looking for technological solutions to social problems. Isn't the fediverse a technological solution to a social problem? It certainly isn't a social or education-based solution. What do you think?