Redditor and love what I am calling skim milk info.
They want surface level information. How to make a curry, how to change spark plugs, how to treat lawn.
Or they want recent event awareness (front page of the internet) - I myself used to feel confident that if a nuke dropped reddit would let me know before the MSM. In my defense, years ago, it really did be like that and reddit community was truly getting ahead of info before the MSM. At their great dismay during the times of the boston bomber and some other drama. But the point remains - most redditors want event awareness and this makes them susceptible now to the spin on whatever source they get first. It used to be very organic individual sources but now reddit is too slow and often just repost MSM spin articles way after the fact, where in the past you could get an individuals cell phone recording on a BLM riot before the news even talked about it the next day. This no longer happens.
The third thing is the though bubble/ hobbies aspect. Whatever tame thing you are into you can find their and a lot of people seek that. I used to really like the idea of subreddit a and communities for things like blacksmithing and video games and all kinds of niche hobbies because you realize the community's are actually quite large and your hobby or interest is not so weird. People love that.
Put all this together though and you have skim milk, 2% milk, watered down, curated information.
No one is questioning what the information is now. No one does any form of comparative analysis. No one likes to dissent from the norm (karma). Better to hold the opinion than get downvoted or banned from the "community".
I remember one time I got in big trouble around 2012 for saying "nigs gonna nig" because some black guy assaulted a woman and stole her phone and everyone called me raycissssss and I got into a big free speech tirade then and got mad at everyone for attacking me and defending an actual criminal just because I said an unsavory word. To my surprise at that time I was silently upvoted a lot all though the thought police destroyed my inbox. Many journeys on this internet.
But that's the way I see it. There is a new generation of people on this internet. And they don't know. You have to get with the nerds from the 2000-2008 era, of which I was young young during that period but then also the real nerds from the 2008-2012 era. In which WoW/4chan/Halo generation began. Mass communication, mass community.
There are different experiences people are having on the internet I don't know how to explain but it is a layer of reality you can choose. It also is the same irl but it is hyper reality on the internet because the bandwidth of info you can digest is much greater. It is dangerous if people do not question their internet reality just as it is if people do not question their irl reality.
Redditors do neither. Many do neither.
Most people here question both constantly. That is why we are here in the group on the internet. There will always be this group somewhere. Very unlikely for a human to question it's reality and question/verify the information if ya reality at the same time. Be willing to view opposition to current reality (take "red pills). It is a very unlikely thing. But it there will always be a subset, an "underground", of thinkers questioning all these strange things that don't make sense. And they always end up finding the same problems.
Control, fear, darkness. Everytime. It is strange.
Sweet Jesus, that's unnerving.
Redditor and love what I am calling skim milk info.
They want surface level information. How to make a curry, how to change spark plugs, how to treat lawn.
Or they want recent event awareness (front page of the internet) - I myself used to feel confident that if a nuke dropped reddit would let me know before the MSM. In my defense, years ago, it really did be like that and reddit community was truly getting ahead of info before the MSM. At their great dismay during the times of the boston bomber and some other drama. But the point remains - most redditors want event awareness and this makes them susceptible now to the spin on whatever source they get first. It used to be very organic individual sources but now reddit is too slow and often just repost MSM spin articles way after the fact, where in the past you could get an individuals cell phone recording on a BLM riot before the news even talked about it the next day. This no longer happens.
The third thing is the though bubble/ hobbies aspect. Whatever tame thing you are into you can find their and a lot of people seek that. I used to really like the idea of subreddit a and communities for things like blacksmithing and video games and all kinds of niche hobbies because you realize the community's are actually quite large and your hobby or interest is not so weird. People love that.
Put all this together though and you have skim milk, 2% milk, watered down, curated information.
No one is questioning what the information is now. No one does any form of comparative analysis. No one likes to dissent from the norm (karma). Better to hold the opinion than get downvoted or banned from the "community". I remember one time I got in big trouble around 2012 for saying "nigs gonna nig" because some black guy assaulted a woman and stole her phone and everyone called me raycissssss and I got into a big free speech tirade then and got mad at everyone for attacking me and defending an actual criminal just because I said an unsavory word. To my surprise at that time I was silently upvoted a lot all though the thought police destroyed my inbox. Many journeys on this internet.
But that's the way I see it. There is a new generation of people on this internet. And they don't know. You have to get with the nerds from the 2000-2008 era, of which I was young young during that period but then also the real nerds from the 2008-2012 era. In which WoW/4chan/Halo generation began. Mass communication, mass community.
There are different experiences people are having on the internet I don't know how to explain but it is a layer of reality you can choose. It also is the same irl but it is hyper reality on the internet because the bandwidth of info you can digest is much greater. It is dangerous if people do not question their internet reality just as it is if people do not question their irl reality.
Redditors do neither. Many do neither. Most people here question both constantly. That is why we are here in the group on the internet. There will always be this group somewhere. Very unlikely for a human to question it's reality and question/verify the information if ya reality at the same time. Be willing to view opposition to current reality (take "red pills). It is a very unlikely thing. But it there will always be a subset, an "underground", of thinkers questioning all these strange things that don't make sense. And they always end up finding the same problems. Control, fear, darkness. Everytime. It is strange.
Always question who you are.