• Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The Internet as a whole seems a lot less interested in actually listening to anyone with credentials to back themselves up (Musk obviously included).
    Literally, people will just “nuh-uh” a piece of fact for purely emotional personal reasons.

    Maybe it’s that we made the Internet so full of disinformation that everyone is just automatically refusing to listen to others, maybe we have created a social group that just assumes they are more educated than everyone else cause they read some stuff in the internet.

    Maybe all the smarter people with credentials have done the smart thing and left the internet, cause if I hear one more person tell me I’m wrong and that people totally explode in the vacuum of space cause they watched a movie. (Someone even called me confidently incorrect after I provided the research paper I cited when working on decompression in a vacuum), I honestly will think humanity has no right to claim themselves master of any part of nature and I will praise the universe for wiping us out hopefully Armageddon style, with an asteroid with a bunch of oil drillers on it.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      My theory is that as people get more success in life, they tend to get “busier”. They have families, careers, hobbies they’ve invested time in, money to take travel vacations, etc. They just do more “stuff”. This results in less time and interest towards getting into arguments with randos on the internet.

      The internet is extremely accessible and economically inexpensive though, so almost everyone can get on here if they want, regardless of any personal degree of any sort of life proficiencies.

      Together, these factors result in it being the mass of humanity with some of the cream skimmed off. So that’s what we tend to see around us, the internet is the skim milk of humanity. Then to avoid all the watery garbage so prevalent everywhere, we further clump into more segmented communities where we can find more like-minded people to associate with, simply because that’s more enjoyable.

      This is one of the reasons I think it’s important to actually put effort into interacting on here, to try to help prevent it from worsening before we can address some of the underlying technical problems it has introduced into our societies.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It was true before the internet too, there was just less opportunities to witness it because you didn’t interact with thousands of strangers at once.

    • deaf_fish@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      To attempt to wake up those people who think Elon is actually God’s gift of mankind.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        A wake up call on those people will have to go straight for their gut, instead of trying to throw facts at their faces. Even then, it’s a hard task

  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    These types of people really need to stop being a part of the problem by getting off Twitter.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I never really used Twitter, but I’d start using Mastodon, if only to get people to start using Mastodon?

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’m not gonna lie, I have two problems with Lemmy, lack of niche communities (But we’ll wait for Reddit to finish dying) and I seriously can’t find the fucking porn

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 months ago

          How does one use Mastodon (or Twitter)? It just seems like a fire-hose of miscellaneous people’s thoughts. I think I prefer a discussion forum environment centered around specific topics.

          • Gnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            That’s low key the charm of it. I use to only use reddit and it confused me too at first. I never used Twitter but on mastodon you can actually make friends with people. Friends who will discuss the topics you are interested in. I have queer friends on there and gamedev friend and math friends. We are interested in the same things, we boost posts that we all are interested in. Make general often vague looking posts because we know who will see it, like a long drawn out conversation. Its so much cozier than lemmy or reddit, here everyone is trying to correct each other or yell at each other or be the cleverest comment in the thread. On mastodon people are alot more interested in being authentic, thats been my experience of mastodon at least.

        • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Really? Jack Dorsey says it’s suffering from the same mistakes Twitter made. Is it still better than Mastodon? I thought Mastodon was as close as we got to solving the problem for now, just lacking adoption and with your typical fedi-drawbacks

          • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I’m enjoying it for the most part. Jack said he believes everyone should be able to post everything they thing with no moderation at all, as far as I can understand from what I’ve read.