Far too many people think social media broke something. I think it fixed something. It fixed our understanding of what is really going on. It fixed democracy, which relies on people understanding what is really going on. The people losing power over this transition will bitch and moan and make up explanations about what went wrong when in fact nothing went wrong.

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I think social media get too much blame, but are those benefits you mentioned due to social media, or due to the Internet?

Ok, yeah it's probably more accurate to say it's the Internet that democratized information.

Both are needed for free and open discourse.

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agreed: now we can use nostr and keep abreast of everything that we are interested in without anyone trying to filter the stream, and if they do try, then we have tor and etc

it's starting to get to a point where they won't be able to keep the cage around humans at all, not just the ones determined enough to find the cracks