In TellDear, the configuration possibilities are endless (or will be once it’s done). Indeed, you can configure your own ideological view, or that of a friend (from your echo chamber that you want to believe anyway), or of an organization that does its best to offer the most ideology-neutral configuration possible, even though it knows full well that this is impossible. The value of being as free as possible from any ideology is, of course, ideology. However, since everything in the universe is circular, we are in good company.
What does TellDear tell you, dear?
- What type of piece is this? (news, opinion, comment, snippet)
- Out of context level
- Level of rhetoric used
- Fact check (including omitted and arbitrarily chosen facts – very difficult to implement and very different from common fact checking)
How does TellDear tell it to you, dear?
One of the ideas of TellDear is to make information intuitively accessible, the way food is (except modern shit food).
Using colors
We have learned to associate the color red with danger, injustice, anger and more, and green with safety, correctness, relaxation and more. Yellow is somewhere in between. Blue is blue. What the colors mean to you doesn’t matter. All that matters is that they mean something to you and that you can assign meaning to a color (we’ll avoid discussing whether red, the color of blood, is genetically linked to danger or whether this is entirely learned).
