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In my experience the issue with these ideas is that they are so niche that it ends up being a network of unstable or odd people who I cannot at all relate to. O
by bowsamic 1y ago
In my experience the issue with these ideas is that they are so niche that it ends up being a network of unstable or odd people who I cannot at all relate to. Of course when there is a selection effect towards enthusiasts you end up losing a lot of, for lack of a better word, socially "normal" people. And then, yes, it does become harder to enjoy. I'm sure this will be cast as my problem but it's a very real effect. Of course there was also some selection effect at the beginning of the internet but the net was still a bit wider than it is today. I'm not really interested in the 1000th furry rust hacker
- rambambram 1y agoNow I'm curious, what are some places on the internet that you like and would consider calling "socially normal"?
- bowsamic 1y agoI don’t like them but Threads, here, Reddit, Instagram I don’t think there are any good places on the internet. They either suffer from the aforementioned problem or are bad in other ways
- bee_rider 1y agoAttention economy websites cause otherwise normal people to start acting like reality TV show characters or politicians.
- bowsamic 1y agoIndeed. Really there’s no good option. Either you get screwed over by the attention economy and your family members become conspiracy theorists, or you give up and become a furry or something
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoAnd due to survivorship bias, they make it look like you have to act like that in order to "win", but since it's a numbers game you end up with millions of would-be influencers doing the influencer routines and getting the influencer personality, which is... pretty insufferable in real life. But they're different worlds entirely.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoJust because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist; the more different people get downvoted or feel unwelcome in the mainstream spaces, but that doesn't mean they're not there.
- bowsamic 1y agoSure but the fact they're downvoted and outnumbered means I can avoid them