@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • edit-210 months agoOn social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?message-square43fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down130file-text
arrow-up1161arrow-down1message-squareOn social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • edit-210 months agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•10 months agoSo exactly how the world worked before the internet except instead of getting your misinformation from aunt Becky you get disinformation from xXxFrenchmansCumsockxXx a12 year old in a foreign country… or a bot
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink2•edit-210 months agoHere’s a couple of differences Millions of us communicate our ideas to millions every minute. (Think of that. 10E6^minute. Such a churn.) An idea can go anywhere in the world instantly. So there’s that vast amplification. A cannon vs a pistol.
So exactly how the world worked before the internet except instead of getting your misinformation from aunt Becky you get disinformation from xXxFrenchmansCumsockxXx a12 year old in a foreign country… or a bot
Here’s a couple of differences
Millions of us communicate our ideas to millions every minute. (Think of that. 10E6^minute. Such a churn.)
An idea can go anywhere in the world instantly.
So there’s that vast amplification. A cannon vs a pistol.