If the truth makes people fearful, uncertain, and doubtful is that still FUD? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

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It was fud in the sense that it instilled (or could) a sense of fear, uncertainty, &/or doubt about (a shitcoin (& shitcoins at large)).

I didn't say that it was untrue.

This is the comment that has Jack Mallers scratching his head. The argument being made against him is that what he said fits what the acronym FUD stands for.

However, as Jack points out, "FUD" has colloquially come to be synonymous with "misinformation". If it didn't mean misinformation, it would be strange to complain about. "Hey you're causing people to fear and doubt this thing" is a complaint someone who wants to control people would make, but "hey this is misinformation" is a much different complaint.

I'd be a fool not to mention once again GiGi's article about "The words we use in Bitcoin": https://dergigi.com/2022/06/27/the-words-we-use-in-bitcoin/

The words we use to describe things matter because the scammers will twist them and present them with wildly different meaning than what we intended.

I want to encourage my peers to stop saying FUD. To decry people who use the word FUD to complain about articles and to instead use the word that we actually mean to say: Misinformation.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 25 Jan

Unless you are outsourcing your critical thinking all of the buzz words are nonsense but they can be used to signify a simple concept. Any fear by those who are not interested doesn't matter and any fear against propaganda is justified as there is a desire to seek an idea.

Something is not the truth if all of the facts are not laid out. Like pretending that Bitcoin doesn't exist. Look at Brave browser as an example it's all about "crypto" but they have nothing to do with BITCOIN because it doesn't exist. If Brave adopted sats it would be a beast application but it is not. They want to pretend and play and scam.

If it's not BITCOIN it's a scam and if it's not being advertised it's a project that wants to be the backup in case Bitcoin loses is luster.

There is so much to learn and do in Bitcoin that all the other projects of "crypto" are just reinvented wheels that look like triangles, squares and trapezoids.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0245bdaef2 25 Jan

I do not find this response surprising at all coming from Altcoin Daily