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I'm at a point where I almost don't believe anything I see or read on the internet or social media anymore.

- In the 90's I had already stopped believing in legacy media (print, TV etc.)

- In the 2000s I firmly believed in the principle: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

- As soon as Twitter launched in 2007 I also stopped believing in the sincerity of regular, real people online.

- At some point I also lost faith in the credibility and competence of popular Islamic scholars on the internet, with very few exceptions.

- I recently lost trust in the integrity of the Bitcoin Core developers (you know why)

- For the past two years I haven’t believed that there are real people behind any given pubkey, or that you should be doing business with them (sorry, that’s the price of anonymity)

- Somewhere along the way I also stopped believing in citizen journalism.

- No need to tell anyone that photos can't be trusted. Now it’s videos too.

- Even seasoned lawyers are showing up in court with AI-invented precedent cases.

The entire internet, Nostr included, is one giant brainwashing machine. Keep it real. Anyone who stays real is priceless.

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Rush 6mo ago

الله المستعان.

Without real connections, life is quite miserable. Totally agree with you

ابو مريم 6mo ago

You are one of the real ones 🙂

alp 6mo ago

You too

eac69792... 6mo ago

I've had a similar experience growing up with the Internet.

For social media, I always remind myself of the quote:

> "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."

It's just a competition of narratives. You have to be educated enough to see through their interests and rethoric to understand where they actually come from.

What sucks is the addictive element of it.

A positive outcome of all this is a sense of meaninglessness that helped push me towards what is actually important in life:

- We are vicegerents of this earth, we have to build and contribute to our present and our the future. We're all headed towards the same certain destination, and it's not worth it substituting it for what is transient.

eac69792... 6mo ago