@Dr_Satan to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • edit-24 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-square41arrow-up1196arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-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?@Dr_Satan to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • edit-24 months agomessage-square41file-text
And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.
minus-square@RestaldtlinkEnglish21•4 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@Dr_SatanOPlink2•edit-24 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.