Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth::Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, “social media” and “online” ain’t the same thing, now are they?

    • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Well, mostly they are nowadays. Sure, there’s still old school forums and personal websites around but most people online interact via social media.

      • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        The old forums I used to go to don’t exist anymore. One is now a separate entity from the sponsor company because they pivoted from renting game servers ( the old times when you could host your own private server) to telco and it lost all the value to have gamers attached to the image of the company. Also gamers in the meantime assumed another meaning entirely…