Looks cool, you should definitely build the community the way you want to!

It’s sometimes easier to build up an existing community that already has a number of subscribers but could use more love and attention. Of course you can also cross post to and from that other community if you’d prefer to grow a new one.

In this case, I’m thinking of [email protected]. If you wanted to, you could reach out and offer to help moderate

Here is a more substantial discussion about the whole thing. I’ve pulled some excerpts, but the original article has the citations and links

https://theconversation.com/we-fact-checked-residential-school-denialists-and-debunked-their-mass-grave-hoax-theory-213435

Commentators circulating allegations of a “hoax” contend journalists have misrepresented news of the potential unmarked graves, circulating sensational, attention-grabbing headlines and using the term “mass grave” to do so. They also contend some First Nations, activists or politicians used this language for political gain — to shock and guilt Canadians into caring about Indigenous Peoples and reconciliation.

Like the councillor in P.E.I., many people — in Canada and internationally, fuelled partly by misinformation from the far-right — are accepting and promoting the “mass grave hoax” narrative and casting doubt on the searches for missing children and unmarked burials being undertaken by First Nations across Canada.

What did Canadian news outlets actually report after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation made their public announcements about their search for missing children?

To find out, we analyzed 386 news articles across five Canadian media outlets (CBC, National Post, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and The Canadian Press) released between May 27 and Oct. 15, 2021.

What we found, according to our evidence from 2021, is that most mainstream media did not use the terminology “mass graves.” Therefore, we argue that the “mass grave hoax” needs to be understood as residential school denialism.

After some public confusion over the specific details of the May 2021 Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announcement, which named “preliminary findings” regarding “the remains of 215 children,” the First Nation clarified the findings as the confirmation of “the likely presence of children, L’Estcwicwéý (the Missing) on the Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds” in “unmarked burials.”

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation had already identified 51 student deaths at the Kamloops school using church and state records.

Of the 386 articles reviewed in our study, the majority of the articles (65 per cent, or 251) accurately reported on stories related to the location of potential unmarked graves in Canada.

A minority (35 per cent or 135 articles), contained some inaccurate or misleading reporting; however, many of the detected inaccuracies are easily understood as mistakes and most were corrected over time as is common practice in breaking news within the journalism industry.

Of the 386 total articles, only 25 — just 6.5 per cent of total articles — referred to the findings as “mass graves,” with most of the articles appearing in a short window of time and some actually using the term correctly in the hypothetical sense (that mass graves may still be found).

That means that 93.5 per cent of the Canadian articles released in the spring, summer and fall of 2021 that we examined did not report the findings as being “mass graves.”

It appears that some journalists and commentators misunderstood a large number of potential or likely unmarked graves for mass graves in late May/June 2021. By September, denialists were misrepresenting the extent of media errors to push the conspiratorial “mass grave hoax” narrative online.

Our research shows that the “mass grave hoax” narrative hinges on a misrepresentation of how Canadian journalists reported on the identification of potential unmarked graves at former residential school sites in 2021. And we hope our report sparks a national conversation about how important language is when covering this issue.

Media needs to be precise with language and also acknowledge its errors (and avoid future ones), or clarify details in a way that feeds truth, empathy and more accurate reporting — not denialism, hate and conspiracy.

There is also this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Indian_Residential_School

Preliminary findings announced in May 2021 by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc suggested that 215 graves could exist at the site. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation had officially documented 51 students who died at the school.[46] Their dates of death range from 1919 until 1971.[46] In July 2021, Beaulieu revised her estimate to 200 and noted that they should be considered “probable burials” or “targets of interest”, and said that only with an excavation could they be confirmed as human remains.[6] Beaulieu also noted that the apple orchard she surveyed constituted only two acres of the 160-acre residential school site.

Man, you guys really get upset and uncivil just because somebody said they don’t like tattoos

No, the downvotes are because you said

I’m honestly ok with this

It’s fine to not like tattoos. Other people in this thread have also said that they also don’t like tattoos, but they’re not being downvoted. You’re the one arguing in bad faith here.

There’s always been healthy discussion online about people not liking tattoos, regretting a particular one, discussing the costs of removal, and discouraging others. There’s no conspiracy pushing for one side over the other. What people do agree on is that detention based on the presence of tattoos alone, is wrong.

Hi, this post is being reported.

Can you include a comment about the article, how it is relevant to the community to kick off some more discussion? I would do it myself, and I see that it relates to our election, but since you’re the author it would be better coming from you. Thank you!

I’m good with that too. A pinned post and sidebar list should help people know where to share content.

Since there are many great answers already, thinking of other different ideas

Does shaking the box help? In which case it’s possible something separated

This post was reported for potential astroturfing, likely because of the very long name (and the broken about page)

It looks like a real organization:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/FINA/Brief/BR11979890/br-external/CanadianDoctorsForProtectionFromGuns-e.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gun-regulations-domestic-violence-1.7311594

Others who have endorsed the recommendations include gun-control advocates PolySeSouvient, Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns,

I think it’s a mix of the two. There are legitimate reasons, and commercial reasons

Synology does not manufacture its own hard drives but instead certifies and rebrands drives from Toshiba and Seagate, leaving out only Western Digital among the world’s largest manufacturers.

They’re disabling features

Synology, maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, will seemingly remove advanced features from its Plus devices that are not using hard drives provided by, or certified by, Synology itself, starting with its 2025 lineup.

What you might lose from using non-Synology-approved hard drives could include pool creation and support for any issues. De-duplication, lifespan analysis, and automatic HDD firmware updates could also disappear on non-approved drives, Synology’s press release suggests.

What is the 48.4% for Reddit, since it isn’t decentralized at all?

Answering the question:

• 2S - Two-Spirit
• L - Lesbian
• G - Gay
• B - Bi-Sexual
• T - Trans
• Q - Queer or Questioning
• I - Intersex
• A - Asexual
• ± All other identities

Different groups or different people may choose to use different acronyms. The downvotes are likely from the implication that this is an annual change or ‘flavour’.

Here is a discussion about this (as well other variations in terminology for ethnicity, homeless/unhoused, and more) from a UManitoba linguistics professor: https://theconversation.com/bipoc-or-ibpoc-lgbtq-or-lgbtq2s-who-decides-which-terms-we-should-use-159188

Tagging @[email protected] as well since they had a related question

I get comments on months old posts, I’m fine with it since it will help future users

If the person is looking for a discussion (ex. They need help with the software I posted about), then it’s usually better they make a new post

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It’s actually possible to create local only communities, which would restrict access to users on lemmy.ca. While that doesn’t completely do what you’re looking for since Canadians on other instances won’t be able to see it, it might help somewhat?

Believe me I want the same thing, and I’d imagine most people here want the same. The solution is to post more of what you want to see so others can learn from it. There’s no entity here deciding what content people post

I didn’t know about the IBM plant, and if you want to make a post about it in [email protected] or some other community, I think it would be cool for more people to know about it

If it’s a public list, feel free to share it on [email protected] :)

I agree that this is happening. While we should be aware of what they’re up to when it directly affects us, we could use more Canada specific content

I try to share what I can, feel free to share some as well :) If you have a website that you recommend, I can see if I can share more from there

While it’s still somewhat of a blackbox, some definitions of “open source AI” are better than others

https://opensource.org/ai

The OSI one is decent

The format of the post also looked similar to spam posts at first glance. A lot of them are pushing AI things

While this won’t be the case with everyone, it was mentioned a few times in a post I made here a long while back

https://lemmy.ca/post/9443464

I’m a woman, and make no attempt to hide that fact in my posts. That said, I also don’t personally have much interest in talking about being a woman, so don’t sub to any of those places you linked.

Over on Reddit I just sort of let people assume I was male a lot of the time, since it wasn’t really relevant to what we were talking about. But from the start on Lemmy I’ve made sure to call out incorrect assumptions, downvote and give a talking to people stereotyping or being misogynistic, etc etc. And the more of us (of all genders) that make that same decision, the better things get