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The open web is an attack on the average user. It's unremittingly hostile as a place to go to if you aren't part of the culture that spawned it. Facebook does a
by cwyers 9y ago
The open web is an attack on the average user. It's unremittingly hostile as a place to go to if you aren't part of the culture that spawned it. Facebook does a very poor job of sheltering people from the worst of the open web, but it's about a billion times more bearable than the open web scaled up to modern adoption rates would be.
- codq 9y agoWell that is certainly a viewpoint I don't hear very often around these parts.
- dredmorbius 9y agoInteresting viewpoint, and not without some truth. But could you see an alternative that doesn't leave a single entity in control?
- camillomiller 9y agoAnd why would "learning a culture" before getting to be a part of it be any bad? Why should we be entitled to a free pass to some place that needs a culture to be grasped? This is exactly facebook problem: lowering the bar is not a good thing per se, especially if you then pretend to run away from the responsibilities that come with it (i.e. being a fucking awesome amplifier for the worst shit ever)
- cwyers 9y ago> And why would "learning a culture" before getting to be a part of it be any bad? Because they don't want to. They don't want to learn it, they don't want to be a part of it. So they stay in a walled garden where they can participate in groups they want to participate in, with their own culture. And they're not the ones complaining about it, the open web advocates are complaining about their voluntary association with each other.
- hyperdunc 9y agoFinding the open web hostile is a sign of a dangerously sheltered mind. The last thing such a person needs is to be restricted to a relatively sanitized space like Facebook. Far healthier in the long term to engage with ideas that aren't tightly curated and learn to filter out trolls.