Roughly 6 in 10 voters backing President Biden say they’d replace both the incumbent and his rival former President Trump on the 2024 ballot if they could, polling released Wednesday shows. A Pew R…
  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    5010·
    8 months ago

    Ever see a story in the sidebar, and know before clicking on it who posted it?

    • odelik@lemmy.today
      193·
      8 months ago

      It’s a tone thing.

      There’s a few regular article posters than either post articles with a certain tone to the headline or they editorialize the post title to fit their narrative. It’s similar to how you can notice how somebody you’re familiar with writes and uses language and can identify potential alt/sock puppet accounts from them.

      Due to this I’ve come to believe that these people are astro-turfers with a disengenous agenda.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        152·
        8 months ago

        I’m running on mbin; it shows randomly selected stories / random communities in the sidebar (which I think Lemmy doesn’t do) with no additional details besides the title.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        The Community Info. Depending on the website layout it is often displayed on the side of the screen, as a sidebar next to the main content. It usually has things like community rules. Some layouts and mobile apps refer to it as the sidebar, community description, or the community info.