the internet did deliver on its promise to connect people and spread ideas around the world and unfortunately the ideas that it is best at spreading are conspiratorial and fascist
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We used to post cat pictures.
sep 1, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 1 • view
I truly believe it's the commercial, ad-driven internet that does this. All the wrong incentives at play.
sep 1, 2025, 9:19 am • 0 0 • view
It connects isolated people. Some of them were isolated for bad reasons, and some of them were isolated for good reasons.
sep 1, 2025, 5:05 am • 0 0 • view
It allowed conspiracy theorists to move from poorly distributed zines to networks of related websites and videos, which, of course, only made it easier for all of them to spread well beyond the limits of what they could before.
sep 1, 2025, 7:10 am • 0 0 • view
I think part of the problem was/is the instant gratification and democratization of ideas and information. People weren’t content with knowing and accepting the same info as everybody so in their pursuit of feeling unique started gobbling and adopting conspiratorial ideas
sep 1, 2025, 4:44 am • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately, many people have very bad ideas and are a bad influence on those around them
sep 1, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
The internet also dissolves common narratives/reality that centralized mass media of old used to create. Instead, we increasingly are siloed off in social media realities with completely different understanding of the world will live in from some of our fellow citizens.
sep 1, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Strongly reminded of this line by Douglas Adams regarding his version of the universal translator
sep 1, 2025, 3:57 pm • 3 0 • view
“It was always the plan to put the world in your hands”
sep 1, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
We are a very stupid species.
sep 1, 2025, 9:31 am • 1 0 • view
I don't think that's true. The internet was deliberately taken over and enclosed by big money, same as other public spaces and resources... and they are using it to spread fascist propaganda, because they want us all divided and fighting each other so we don't organise against them.
sep 1, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
“Stop, stop, we just meant the GOOD ideas!”
sep 1, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
The epitome of "Shit, not like that."
sep 1, 2025, 2:38 am • 6 0 • view
Ideology Wants To Be Free, regardless of accuracy or factuality.
sep 1, 2025, 2:40 am • 4 0 • view
oh i don't know. its also good at spreading ideologically agnostic horny. gotta give it that one
sep 1, 2025, 2:47 am • 11 0 • view
people should be more horny and less fascist imo
sep 1, 2025, 2:47 am • 38 7 • view
easy to agree with this one, postin pal
sep 1, 2025, 2:51 am • 5 0 • view
I agree, but also this didn’t happen in a vacuum. One problem is the bad actors actively exploiting our vulnerabilities to sow divisions have largely gone unchallenged, and there’s a lack of significant, organised, well funded defence mechanisms against these well-oiled disinformation machines.
sep 1, 2025, 2:48 am • 4 0 • view