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Was everyone stupid back then?
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Politics were not mentioned, in any way, yet you are trying to inject politics into it. What is wrong with you?
This website is weird. Anecdotally I've noticed it tends to generally be more level-headed and non toxic than other websites I go on (mainly reddit...) yet at the same time the mods seem to be pretty polarized
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#14Actually, it worked, Web 1.0 totally disrupted AOL, CompuServe, MSN etc. until the companies which built on top of the open Web didn't give away their software. These "Web 2.0" companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. just had all your data.
We live in a digital feudalism now. And every few years (e.g. when Musk bought Twitter) there is renewed interest in open source alternatives. We can fix this, if the open source community ever achieves parity with the features that most Web 2.0 social platforms provide:
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#16“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
Douglas Adams thought he was joking.
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#17"You thought that an information transfer protocol would solve social problems?"
I recognize that this is just a comic strip, but this is a pretty reductionist point. The idea that giving people access to more knowledge about the world and about other perspectives would be a big help in addressing social problems isn't crazy.
A major problem, IMO, is that the feeds we use to navigate this sea of information became optimized for engagement (ie: emotional reactions), and so are disproportionally rewarding sensationalist content over content that actually promotes understanding of other perspectives.
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#18The unsaid implication of this comic is that getting rid of the internet would make society better. It would NOT. The ability to have rapid peer to peer communication with anyone on the planet is a good thing. BLM, LGBT rights, disability rights are causes that have thrived thanks to the Internet. The Internet did not cause fascism and any suggestion that it does ignored all of the 20th century.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Politics were not mentioned, in any way, yet you are trying to inject politics into it. What is wrong with you?
What is “social problems” (mentioned in the comic) if not politics?
Do you even know what social problems are?
Usually it refers to criminality, drug use (including opioid epidemics), violence, poverty and so on. How you managed to turn it into conservatives are victim here point is mystery.