🎉🎈🤡 JOURNALISM🤡🎈 🎉
Titles like this make me angry. Sometimes it feels like an insult to my intelligence. Just tell me what it’s about and stop making stuff up.
I make a point of not clicking on such articles, or really anything with click bait titles if I can avoid it.
You have to remember… those headlines aren’t for you. They’re for the average idiot who isn’t even remotely interested in the scientific mumbo jumbo and allbthat highly technical gobbledygook. They want to be spoonfed a statement they can parrot to a co-worker and move on with their day being a terrible consumer of info.
This is all journalism these days
“This is journalism,” Lemmy Claims to be News Outlet
The really reputable outlets will phrase it “'this [Lemmy] is… Journalism”’ claims user of the increasingly popular reddit alternative, in post positing the decline of all other forms of media."
Are we increasing though? I thought we plateaued or even dipped. e.g. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats even says we dropped sharply, like 51k monthly active users in April compared to 47k now (this ignores the halfyear stats that iirc were affected by some technical changes), and the total users tanked from 1.9 mil to just 1.4 (though we surely don’t have that many lurkers, so a lot of those were surely bots/alts), and even servers went down.
Everyone that I’ve mentioned Lemmy to irl gives me a horrible look like why would you tell me about this TruthSocial-like place (except leftist instead of right-wing as that one is) that actively calls for public beheadings of e.g. landlords?
So we’ve got some… issues that are blocking our future growth, from reaching more mainstream audiences.
Damn, you’ve mentioned lemmy irl? And other people have known about it?
In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
Then there’s things like:
“Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN”, and classical physics went out through the quantum window.
The title on this article is one of my favorite gems:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scientific-breakthrough-mysterious-cosmic-metal-190000695.html
Cosmic metal?
Is that some kind of refined variation of unobtanium?
(Without reading more… I’m just going to assume they mean meteoric iron? Though the title does read like a prompt for a b-tier sci-fi that ends with Kirk trying to put his dick into something he absolutely shouldn’t put his dick into.)
Is it an urgent space-gem?
Every time
