Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
maho@lemmy.funami.tech 1 week agoWhile 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.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Where is your evidence of this?
maho@lemmy.funami.tech 1 week ago
Everywhere? Every decade humankind becomes more uniform worldwide, but especially last few decades.
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.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
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.