• Social media created an immediate soap box for everyone, and a way for unhealthy ideas to propagate quicker and more virally. It encourages vanity, inhibition, and unrealistic expectations. Then there’s the whole corporate element, where the mainstream of these platforms are truly just systems of data collection and manipulation.
  • Dead internet theory coming in nicely
  • The early advent of the internet had high hopes it would be used for the sharing of information. It indeed is, but the most widely used search engines are weighted to point you towards curated and questionable sources of information. This is purposeful, and often capitalistically motivated versus educational.
  • There’s more, but I’m tired and didn’t expect to type all this out, so I’ll leave it for the comments.
  • echo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    38·
    29 days ago

    The Internet is not a place. It doesn’t have weather or climate. It doesn’t have AQI. It has no life. It is not a destination or someplace you can go to.

    The Internet provides a means of communication. As usual, capitalism and awful people use it to facilitate their twisted, greedy, and hateful purposes.

    • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      29 days ago

      Which is obvious. Once given to the public that was an an obvious direction to go. Even when I was a kid I was aware of neo-nazi sites as far back as the very early 90’s. What I wasn’t aware of was loving, welcoming places. Hate finds a way to move faster and fill in gaps better than love. Like if hate is water, love is jello.