FlashMobOfOne

‘Victim’ is the correct word.

These young people were fed into a digital ecosystem that is 100% meant to be harmful to their brains in order to get them to buy shit they don’t need. If we lived in a just world Facebook would have been held criminally accountable when it was disclosed in 2014 that they were conducting experiments on their users by tweaking their news feeds in order to manipulate them.

Thanks to the addictive element of these applications it will require effort to reorient themselves into this new reality, but that’s better than living in front of a screen. In time, they’ll learn that but it is going to be a learned skill.

Absolutely.

And the ‘woe is me’ thing just doesn’t jive with me, having grown up without social media and knowing the benefits of analog friendships.

I am a little unsympathetic to the notion that people can’t socialize without social media.

You have phone calls, texts, email, snail mail, face-to-face conversations, sports, community activities, etc. Call your friends, get on bikes, and go have an adventure.

After seeing how many terrorist ideologies have been allowed to thrive by claiming First Amendment protection since 2016.

No.

“Diversity of thought” my ass. I’m sure your wonderfully-diverse thoughts are just what all of us need to hear, but if they can’t pass muster under human moderation, they’re not worth platforming.

Even better.

Most instances have human moderation, gating for bots, and yes, and you actually have to take 5-10 minutes to figure out how it all works, so the stupid people are automatically excluded by sheer complexity.

I fucking love Mastodon.