Grabs Turds Bare
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I've never bought into a conspiracy theory in my life. Fuck the JFK nuts, the moon landing nuts, flat earthers, etc.
Over the past few years or so, as I surf reddit, the chons, and the rest of the internet, I've noticed a dramatic shift in content and presentation.
10 years ago, the internet was a lot like our little message board here - content filtered out of the ether, there were memes here and there, but, mostly, viral things didn't seem to have any semblance of a unified message.
Now, with /r/politics, /t/the_donald, /pol/ pushing such unified narratives, it has provided a platform for places like Breitbart, HuffPo, etc. to just feed message back and forth.
What really kills me is that you used to be able to go through subs on Reddit or the chans and get an idea of what Average Joe was thinking. Now it feels way too streamlined - either the various algorithms have changed things dramatically or certain folks have really invested effort into getting a message out.
I'm huge on internet anonymity. I think it is critical to have an open forum where everyone can express opinions without fear. However, governments/large organizations using that anonymity to engage in post flooding, message spam, or manufactured content has really made the larger internet a real pile of shit.
It really makes me value boards like this one, where I feel much less sunburned by the words on my screen.
tl'dr I'm butthurt about how quick the whole internet became fucking Facebook.
Over the past few years or so, as I surf reddit, the chons, and the rest of the internet, I've noticed a dramatic shift in content and presentation.
10 years ago, the internet was a lot like our little message board here - content filtered out of the ether, there were memes here and there, but, mostly, viral things didn't seem to have any semblance of a unified message.
Now, with /r/politics, /t/the_donald, /pol/ pushing such unified narratives, it has provided a platform for places like Breitbart, HuffPo, etc. to just feed message back and forth.
What really kills me is that you used to be able to go through subs on Reddit or the chans and get an idea of what Average Joe was thinking. Now it feels way too streamlined - either the various algorithms have changed things dramatically or certain folks have really invested effort into getting a message out.
I'm huge on internet anonymity. I think it is critical to have an open forum where everyone can express opinions without fear. However, governments/large organizations using that anonymity to engage in post flooding, message spam, or manufactured content has really made the larger internet a real pile of shit.
It really makes me value boards like this one, where I feel much less sunburned by the words on my screen.
tl'dr I'm butthurt about how quick the whole internet became fucking Facebook.
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