The good potential was lost when the old wild west Internet, where any random person could build a site and start a community. Now that there’s enough money and corporate presence on the Internet, they build up all the sites and tools that places use to socialize with others and, lo and behold, they implement algorithms to make sure reactionary beliefs are spoonfed to as many people as possible.
They understood the meta on what communication and community building was going to look like, and now, the only hope to get people out of these pipelines into reactionary echo chambers is either to pray all the big social media platforms decide en masse to stop promoting these views out of the goodness of their hearts, or we all just give up the poison and go back to living like it’s the late 90s and the Internet is just a thing you maybe check a couple of times a day at home and you otherwise live in the real world.
The good potential was lost when the old wild west Internet, where any random person could build a site and start a community. Now that there’s enough money and corporate presence on the Internet, they build up all the sites and tools that places use to socialize with others and, lo and behold, they implement algorithms to make sure reactionary beliefs are spoonfed to as many people as possible.
They understood the meta on what communication and community building was going to look like, and now, the only hope to get people out of these pipelines into reactionary echo chambers is either to pray all the big social media platforms decide en masse to stop promoting these views out of the goodness of their hearts, or we all just give up the poison and go back to living like it’s the late 90s and the Internet is just a thing you maybe check a couple of times a day at home and you otherwise live in the real world.