Submitted 3 days ago by s@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Abe Simpson said “I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!” but today’s “it” is vapid, misinformational, and malicious.
It’s clear you’ve never been a real big part of the internet. It hasn’t changed. It’s always been “the wild west”, full of misinformation, maliciousness, callousness, etc.
Nope. I’ve deleted Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit each about 3 years ago. I will give you that Vine and TikTok have historically ticked those boxes, which is why I never had any reason to use them. Companies found that more engagement means more ad money and more sellable user data, and content that is problematic or superficial tends to provide more engagement, or bad actors intentionally poison the well of content for their own agenda. People also bring that profit-motivated content onto other sites, including sites without a profit motive. Yes, there definitely were these problems everywhere online since the beginning, but the way they breakdown our language, ways of communicating, and understanding has been manufactured to become more severe.
I see the same severity that I always have - the issue is Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Vine, Tiktok, etc are all just finally sinking into the swamp that is the internet. It’s all been under the surface, you just never participated in the real internet, and it’s starting to invade your spaces now is all.
Not denying what was always here, but its a different kind if shit, a different kind of fuckedness.
The internet was beautiful because as fucked as it was, the motivations were personal. If you posted gore in 2005, it was because you had a fetish, were proud of your work, or wanted the personal validation of a reaction.
Now its always some propaganda shit. It’s manipulative and hierarchal and crap. All managed, and now created, by some fucking algorithm designed to own you.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
engagement