I've watched every one of my friends grow dumber by the day for the last 20 years. Propaganda or just outright misinformation for no reason other than "it's funny" is rampant, both from individuals and from corporations or political groups.

The internet at large has been compressed into six websites and if you want to buy or sell things on the internet anymore you have to do it through Facebook.

Every single village idiot that used to be safely ignored now has a global voice with 12,000 other idiots backing them up, and they're dragging all the rest of us down into the mud with them.

Social media has been a huge net negative for everyone involved. End of story. For a very brief time it was pretty cool and then it very swiftly became a societal disease. We really, really fucked this one, majorly.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 0 points 8 hours ago

Fucking hell that's a really good way of putting things. I totally agree with village idiots, the "wake up sheeple!" types used to only be able to discuss it in the pub with people around them. Now they can connect all over