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> Your neighbours. Your local community. You listen to PEOPLE, not sockpuppets. You listen to legitimate human beings, not AI generated blather, or curated new

> Your neighbours. Your local community. You listen to PEOPLE, not sockpuppets. You listen to legitimate human beings, not AI generated blather, or curated news stories, or groups working together to generate hate, outrage, to stoke anger, upset. You either have a significantly better social circle than I do or are glossing over a bunch of nuance. Some of my family back east have been getting their brains rotted by fox news and the likes for literal decades now. Some of those family members were also shaped by insular groups (their 'community') with fucked up thinking As for the friends who I choose to associate with today, I indeed like and prefer their opinions (probably why we've self selected to be friends), but I assure you they have nonzero exposure to online communication. I agree Twitter is shit and always has been due to the lack of context, but I often prefer reddit to real life conversations because I can actually take my time to think about my thoughts and even dig up sources. It also exposes me to more diverse viewpoints than I'd get solely in my physical circle of friends. Now, I don't really use reddit after the most recent shenanigans, but here I am back on hackernews like I was slashdot before reddit. I don't think I'd ever want to abstain completely from online communications or forums.

b112 3y ago
I said nothing of abstainment. In fact, I am posting! Ignoring online comments, especially criticism, does not mean disregardment. And note, context is important. Note what I am replying to. Simply put, on a medium where one person can sockpuppet appear as 1000, where one person can rally 1000 useful idiots with one disingenuous post, one cannot care what is said. Ignore it. We already have 30 year old adults, trying to discuss political nuance online, not realising that they may be piled on by a dozen 8 year olds. People presume the person behind the text is real, the person is their approximate age, or at least an adult, that the person is debating in good faith. None of this is necessarily true, and in any large group of responses, the above chicanery is happening. No one should care what a bunch of "people" on Twitter say.

b112 3y ago

I said nothing of abstainment. In fact, I am posting! Ignoring online comments, especially criticism, does not mean disregardment. And note, context is important. Note what I am replying to. Simply put, on a medium where one person can sockpuppet appear as 1000, where one person can rally 1000 useful idiots with one disingenuous post, one cannot care what is said. Ignore it. We already have 30 year old adults, trying to discuss political nuance online, not realising that they may be piled on by a dozen 8 year olds. People presume the person behind the text is real, the person is their approximate age, or at least an adult, that the person is debating in good faith. None of this is necessarily true, and in any large group of responses, the above chicanery is happening. No one should care what a bunch of "people" on Twitter say.