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drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day agoYeah to me it seems very clear that 4chan is a net negative on the society. We all would have been better off if it wasn’t created and I say that as someone who did find value there in the early days (had a decent programming community)
There is a green text about how some eccentric thought could derail someone’s entire life by finding other eccentric people on the internet.
www.reddit.com/r/…/beforeafter_the_internet/
before the internet
I want to fuck toasters dont be a fucking retard grow up
After internet
I want to fuck a toaster google find a community with 1000+ members about people wanting to fuck toasters fuck up your life
This one time I had a question that was so stupid, that website was the only place it could be asked.
I got an answer.
And you call it a net negative?! :p (heh yeah sounds very true)
PS: for the record, the topic was completely unimportant and irrelevant to anything anyone should care about, and there was nothing illegal or even rude about it
“Can I use a toilet brush to brush my teeth and not get rotting teeth ???”
I think 4chan sadly always was kind of a mirror of society
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
All social media is a net negative on society. Twitter has been far, far worse because it has a false legitimacy given to it by mainstream media, the much, much larger user base and terrible, terrible people using it as their soapbox.
drmoose@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I disagree with this very western take. Social media is huge and connects billions of people that otherwise would be disconnect. It also allowed to rise of many net positive liberal ideas especially in the eveloping countries and the incredible economical stimulation is rarely talked about.
People forget how bad the world was before internet. Sure it raises some issues but also solved much more.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Internet =/= social media.
We had the spreading of positive, liberal ideas before social media was commodifying all human interactions and the corporations weren’t able to influence individuals with forums, personal websites and IRC. Hell, even AIM and ICQ were better then what we have now.
If I turn off my ad blockers, I will see conservative ads, not because that’s what I want to see, but because that’s what the corporations want me to see.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m not sure if they’re all that different. Early forums were very much similar to Facebook walls etc. Irc even had bot powered gamed and complex systems like user verification etc.