A community to find or validate facts. You can also share other works of similar fact finding (lemmy.world)
from sga@lemmy.world to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 19:20
https://lemmy.world/post/21451930

Original idea for this community came from @kibiz0r@midwest.social who in comments of this post gave ideas for many new communities.

This community also serves as a “Do the Maths” community or “<Insert specialist> explainer”

Currently the community is very small so the fact finding may be slow, perhaps as it grows it can be fast fact finding ninja

#newcommunities

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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 30 Oct 2024 19:23 collapse

!lemmy_check@lemmy.world

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 19:38 collapse

Hah, I was just about to kick it with that as a comment. Thanks for the link!

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 30 Oct 2024 19:45 collapse

There should be a bot.

Actually, do you want me to make a bot? It wouldn’t be hard.

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 19:56 next collapse

I’m not sure, how would that even work if they haven’t provided the link?

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 30 Oct 2024 19:59 collapse

If they link directly to {instance}/c/{community} but not to !{community}@{instance} it can chime in with that second thing.

Most people link to something, but they don’t always link to the thing that works everywhere.

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 20:02 collapse

Well sure, I can’t compensate you but if you wanted to do that I’d let it do it’s thing.

Blaze@feddit.org on 30 Oct 2024 20:00 next collapse

That would be nice

andrew_s@piefed.social on 30 Oct 2024 20:34 collapse

There used to be one - https://lemmings.world/u/communitylinkfixer

It looks like it was de-activated 3 months ago.

If you make a new one, please consider limiting it to just this community (and maybe communitypromo), and to not translating a link if the OP has also already provided a ! one, and to not translating links inside code blocks.

Drive-by bots can seem easy to make, but the problem is that they can be a bit too easy, and then end up as yet another annoying one.