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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/marketrent on 2023-11-12 22:19:36.
Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth
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ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
When social networking changes to social media, that was the end of the “good” Internet.
It’s possible to get it back if we kill off the social media companies, but it will be hard. The tantalizing nature of profit for selling use data is apparently quite the siren’s song.
The fediverse is a promising development, though.