- Social media created an immediate soap box for everyone, and a way for unhealthy ideas to propagate quicker and more virally. It encourages vanity, inhibition, and unrealistic expectations. Then there’s the whole corporate element, where the mainstream of these platforms are truly just systems of data collection and manipulation.
- Dead internet theory coming in nicely
- The early advent of the internet had high hopes it would be used for the sharing of information. It indeed is, but the most widely used search engines are weighted to point you towards curated and questionable sources of information. This is purposeful, and often capitalistically motivated versus educational.
- There’s more, but I’m tired and didn’t expect to type all this out, so I’ll leave it for the comments.
Dunno how unpopular that opinion is, because it’s becoming more and more factually correct each day. Hell, actual counterculture nowadays is avoiding the internet
I often find myself wondering why I spend so much time on lemmy. Not being corpo bullshit doesn’t automatically make it good. “Not as bad” can still be bad, like how 1g of lead is “not as bad” for your health as 1g of polonium