Knowledge gating was the reason the internet was great to begin with, only more educated people knew or cared about it, and the quality of discussion was better
it's not taboo, it wasn't in the 90s, it's algorithms and terms of service dictating cultural norms
lol this is literally a repost of the ycombinator question from earlier today
That's all of lemmy lol, it's like a joke how jaded and cynical people on here are, honestly worse than redditors
Mastodon is for mentally ill people :/ bsky ftw
When will this happen?
well they definitely escaped society
I love not living in america
Check out these if you miss old web
- Melonland forum
- Agora road
Additionally the Arab spring started on social media, which literally toppled multiple Middle East regimes. This makes perfect sense
Dead internet theory accelerates
That argument would work if most of the media companies profits went to the people who worked on the show and not billionaire executives
I don't care anymore people can die! =D
surveillance fetish going strong
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will push to include in upcoming defense policy legislation a bipartisan amendment to sanction China over its alleged role in producing the synthetic opioid fentanyl, he said on Sunday.
For context more than 106,000 US citizens died of drug overdoses in 2021, and more than 109,000 in 2022 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/20211117.htm