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It is quite sad, isn’t it. Internet has become both tool of mass mind destruction and tool of joy. High bandwidth connection, mobile phones without keyboard - this combo has changed the way people use internet. Anxiety among kids when they can’t use phone and some of highly addictive apps (TT, WA, IG… you name it) is what concerns me more than what we do with phones (boomers, 90s kids, whatever :) And elders who are…
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" If someone is hosting their own blog and use ads to help offset that..." It used to be that hosting your own blog was a hobby, not a cost-neutral or revenue-positive venture. Like any hobby, you did it for your own enjoyment and if other people enjoyed it, too, then that was a benefit and maybe you'd made the Word a little better. So if you're not willing to pay a few pence per day to cover the cost of your hobby o…
> So if you're not willing to pay a few pence per day to cover the cost of your hobby out of your own pocket, then the answer is "stop blogging" rather than "I shall inflict ads on those who dare to view my output". lol This is a wild sentiment to not only have, but to share with others. Just in shock someone actually believe this. That you're so entitled to other people's stuff that unless they give it to you for fr…
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World Happiness Report finds this: "In general, most Western industrial countries are now less happy than they were between 2005 and 2010. Fifteen of them have had significant drops, compared to four with significant increases." "In eight of the ten global regions shown in Figure 2.2 (covering roughly 90% of the world’s population), those in the youngest age group have higher life evaluations now than in 2006–2010, e…
You're looking for data to validate your emotions, instead of the other way around. But the memetic emotional vibes of humanity are not objective. The link you shared appears to me to be a conclusion in search of a evidence. Unfortunately the fields of psychology/sociology are ground zero for the replication crisis. Only 36% of study findings in psychology are even replicable, and then that number drops even more for…
I'm curious how you intend to do this.
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I completely understand and actually agree with your stance. Consider this, the personal blog we love reading can remain anonymous, because it is private in the sense that it is ostensibly the writings of a single person, it is not a platform. To bring it back to analog, newspapers are platforms, where journalists are identified members of the public and can be held accountable for their words. If you would like more…
If the blog is publicly published, so the author should be unmasked. Identification schemes would be fine if there were never abused, but every single instance of them has been abused in the past. There is zero reason to believe it will it be different on the internet. Are you familiar with how the DMCA gets abused? Do you really believe that bad actors will not find similar ways to abuse an identification system?
Think of it like advertising on billboards. When you partake in an activity with explicit intent to persuade others, you should declare who you are first. That's why my target has been solely focused on social media. Personal blogs don't advertise, social media does. Just like how a private business conducts themselves privately, but advertisements of a company should make clear if it is self advertisement or someone else advertising on behalf of them.