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The village idiot analogy is misguided and unnecessarily accusatory. However, I do feel internet communities were better when they were smaller due to being sp
by bbg2401 3mo ago
The village idiot analogy is misguided and unnecessarily accusatory.
However, I do feel internet communities were better when they were smaller due to being special interest driven and self-policing. People wore different hats according to the community they were engaging with.
- darkwater 3mo agoThere was a very steep curve to access the Internet back then (both economically and technically), and that was a very big filter (although it let through many smart assholes anyway).
- Quothling 3mo agoYou're right, landsbytosse doesn't not translate well. To be fair the literal translation is village fool, which isn't much better. It's meaning would be more along the lines of village eccentric, which could be the village idiot, but not always.