Skeptic - A community for critical takes on pseudoscience, quackery, and bold-faced BS.

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Skeptic - A community for critical takes on pseudoscience, quackery, and bold-faced BS.

lemmy.world

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New Communities@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Skeptic - Lemmy.world

lemmy.world

A community for taking a critical look at pseudoscience, quackery, and bold-faced BS. “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” ~ David Hume Things we like: • Thoughtful discussion • Humor • Civility Things we don’t like quite so much: • Trolling • Low-effort comments and posts • Personal attacks • Spam • URL shorteners Suggested Fediverse Communities • RFK Jr. Watch @lemm.ee [https://lemm.ee/c/rfk_jr_watch] - Tackling misinformation being spread by antivaxxer politician, Robert F Kennedy Jr. • DebunkThis @lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/c/debunkthis] - an evidence-based community for debunking misinformation and dubious claims.

Hey, all.

If you’re someone who likes to think critically about extraordinary claims and outlandish statements being made online or in the news, come hang out with us at !skeptic@lemmy.world

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4•1 year ago
Ooh, an r/skeptic replacement sounds great!

New Communities@lemmy.world

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it’s important to have a foundation to work on.

1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world’s rules, which can be found here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won’t

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn’t get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn’t actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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