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Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

While I agree with many of these takes, I believe there is more to this. For example, your point about defense from falling into panopticon by speaking publicly about things doesn’t actually require publicly speaking about anything other than politics. I mean, you can still hide all professional, creative or fun talk and still have the benefits you listed covered by only ever publicly talking about political issues. Another issue, is that publicity and interconnectedness of all discourses we have nowadays, increases a homogenuity of thinking patterns, in other words it hurts the diversity of the ways of thinking, that is also something that can be improved by more people going private and having closed interest groups in chats invisible to public web.

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Another issue, is that publicity and interconnectedness of all discourses we have nowadays, increases a homogenuity of thinking patterns, in other words it hurts the diversity of the ways of thinking, that is also something that can be improved by more people going private and having closed interest groups in chats invisible to public web.

Where is your evidence of this?

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- maho@lemmy.funami.tech ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Where is your evidence of this?
  
  Everywhere? Every decade humankind becomes more uniform worldwide, but especially last few decades.
  
  It is a mistake to think pushing everybody to talk only in private will increase the diversity and quality of discourse. It will NOT, it will collapse conversations into simpler more reductive narratives.
  
  I feel like over the last two decades everyone on the internet was pushed to talk only in public, even more so, on the few biggest platforms only.
  
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  - supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Where is your evidence of this?
    
    Everywhere? Every decade humankind becomes more uniform worldwide, but especially last few decades.
    
    What? Do you not listen to music? Or enjoy art? Do you not watch theater or tv? Do you not enjoy going to local craft shows and seeing local artists?
    
    What are you talking about?
    
    That is an absurd claim to make.
    
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