4 ms·
Now I'm curious, what are some places on the internet that you like and would consider calling "socially normal"?
by rambambram 1y ago
Now 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