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Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet Is Fake

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Re: Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet Is Fake

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard to say

What's a good IRC channel for cs/maths/physics? After the freedone implosion I don't know where anything is any more.

#maths or #math at irc.libera.chat is pretty active.

For CS / Physics, perhaps try asking there too, I usually hang out in #emacs and #vim. #emacs is super active, so if you ask there, you will get good pointers

Re: Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet Is Fake

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post #6

The internet is alive and well if you know where to look. IRC, subreddits, some twitter circles, github, hacker news, etc. Once you delve more into what you are into, you will find people and the places to interact. IRC in particular for me has been a great blast to the past

You forget to mention Quora.

Re: Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet Is Fake

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post #2

Even though the effect on human education and commerce is undeniably good... it's hard not to read posts like this without a deep, disturbing sensation that something about the internet is profoundly incompatible with the way human brains have evolved.

I think this is exactly the point of posts like this. We have created an exploitable environment, that can be abused for several reasons (politics and economics, being the two most obvious). And the fact that it is abusable, makes it less of a thing "for humans" or, at least, something we have evolved to consume/participate every day, let alone every hour of our lives.
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