I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn’t an echo chamber.

      Facebook - Echo chamber, actively manipulated to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads

      Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads

      Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a “locals only” aesthetic

      LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod vigorously to everything the CEO says in the “all-hands” meeting

      Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties

      YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you’ll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)

      Twitter (I’ll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including “MechaHitler”

      Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up

      Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it’s decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)

      Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber

      Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes

      Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber

      TikTok - An algorithmically tweaked, purposefully addictive echo chamber that shows you what you want to see so you volunteer your money and your data

      Shall I go on?

      I don’t just allow “both sides” to come into my living room and have a debate with me about whether or not trans people should be able to exist in peace or whether or not minorities should be exterminated. I similarly don’t waste time “debating” them on social media or reading their posts. Tolerance of intolerant people just so we can “cover both sides” isn’t a high priority of mine on social media, and it’s also not available anywhere anyway.