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Yeah but what’s the point, most people don’t want to spend a lot of time there.
by dyauspitr 2y ago
Yeah but what’s the point, most people don’t want to spend a lot of time there.
- newsclues 2y agoThe small group that does has had a major influence on culture at large.
- dyauspitr 2y agoIt does but that’s not what a large scale scalable corp is trying to achieve. You want as many participants as possible enjoying themselves for as long as possible.
- squigz 2y agoSuch as?
- newsclues 2y agohttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-far-right-trolls-opting-out-2024-campaign-1234631885/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fa... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
- harimau777 2y agoSure, but that influence has not exactly been positive. That's the catch I think. It's much easier to exert negative influence than positive influence.
- newsclues 2y agoInfluence is just a tool to effect change upon people at scale. It’s a tool, it can be used for good or evil. I’ll leave the subjective analysis to others but I think tools are rare just good or bad.
- dyauspitr 2y agoIt’s not that simple. Tribalism is easy and most considered a net negative. Tribalism is easy to sell because it’s ingrained in humans. That’s what 4chan does, pick the lowest hanging fruit.
- newsclues 2y agoImagine living a primitive life in a cave or the woods, you eat berries and kill small animals and cook by a campfire. Do you really think joining up with other primitive humans in a small tribe would be a negative experience on your life? Friends and allies would be helpful. Tribalism is an essential human social method that got humanity to this point!
- thousand_nights 2y agothat's an intended feature working as expected, an influx of more people would ruin it
- ranger_danger 2y agoMaybe that's the key... sites should not become so large that it creates big echo chambers for one person to reach millions, it keeps other people having to search for answers and do their own research instead of just everyone listening to the same group of idiots. Perhaps you could also force a limit on how much time was spent (or how many posts made in X time) on the site.