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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This also exposed just how many stupid people are out there. We all assumed that making infinite knowledge available would be the rising tide which lifts all boats; instead, the rising tide is a tsunami of idiocy and willful ignorance.

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know that I was completely wrong in this regard. You know, like how Mark Twain said something like travel was anathema to bigotry.

    So, I thought that the reason bigotry existed was that people are afraid of the unknown, so if you forced people together, they’d have to realize that we’re all the same.

    But now I realize that the main reason bigotry exists is that people are staying in contact with other bigots. The part about meeting diverse people is important, but far less important than pulling people out of their comfort zone to combat bigotry. So, the internet amplifies bigotry, because they’ll never be out-of-contact with their local bigots, even if they travel away from them.

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• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can we please just make network that has a higher barrier to entry than spending 1000 dollars on an iPhone but through a 4 year loans?

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  • bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we not already on such a network? There are some here that moan about the Fediverse being too hard of a concept for the laymen to wrap their heads around. I do not disagree with them, but I like to see it as a moron filter that doesn't seem to exist on most other places on the internet.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, I just went to a site and made an account.

      Facebook has the same barriers in place, and ironically enough, I can view our content without an account and not theirs.

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• black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, a lotta fucking Nazis knew what TCP/IP was back in the 80s, too.

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this would would only help our sanity, the stupid people would still be stupid, just not as loudly

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Them being stupid, loudly, together, is making all of them stupider as individuals, too.

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The ad populum fallacy on full display.

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      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t know, man. I saw a Facebook poll saying ad populum isn’t a thing.

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.

  I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”

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