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> The centralized web is awful. Getting away from it is awful. That's just because a significant amount of people are awful. And now everyone is on the web, in
by toyg 5y ago
> The centralized web is awful. Getting away from it is awful.
That's just because a significant amount of people are awful. And now everyone is on the web, including the awful ones.
It's not social media, it's us.
- ectopod 5y agoIt's both. Social media provides a positive feedback loop for awfulness.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt certainly polarizes people. The people in the middle who aren't that passionate about things tend to just scroll past, but the “passionate” ones just yell at each other and either keep doing that ad inifinitum or they form an echo chamber where they can call others snowflakes.
- southerntofu 5y agoIt's not just polarization. Polarization is a natural state of human societies and is a good thing as it enables things to move forward (in either direction). Silicon Valley corporations, whether for profit or by ideology, have pushed nazi/conspirationist propaganda to everyone in the form of recommendations for many years. To be fair, so have traditional media outlets, neither of which is excusable in my view.
- mistermann 5y agoMaybe someone will eventually take this into consideration in their design.
- robwwilliams 5y agoHN for example. I find this community conforms to my own notions of informative, open, and smoothly moderated.
- mistermann 5y agoProvided one stays within the local Overton Window, I agree.