1rre@lemmy.org.uktoTechnology@beehaw.org•"Trust' and 'distrust' buttons -rather than 'like' and 'dislike' buttons- could reduce spread of misinformation on social media, experimental study suggests
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1 year agoIn theory and in a study where people are actually paying attention to the changes sure, but I think in actual fact people are going to inherently distrust things they dislike and want to trust things they like so for all intents and purposes they’d be identical
That’s not a great mindset to have and yet is incredibly pervasive in foss…
Even if you offer to implement a feature which has been requested multiple times, you get people with their fingers in their ears and no idea what is useful to other people saying that it’s not useful so they would reject the pr.
Feel free to say “I wouldn’t find it that useful”, but don’t speak for everyone with a viewpoint directly contrary to someone saying “I think this would be useful”