Oh I thought you were saying people are better now that everyone is on reddit than when we were all in our own weird little corners hah. I definitely think there was more accountability back in those smaller communities where you had a reputation to stake rather than being able to spin up dozens of anonymous sock puppets, basically.
Yeah thats basically what I’m getting at. There was definitely still aggro people who would go out of their way to be a social menace in those small communities, but the social effect of the community had a powerful effect to keep people in check. Its obviously an aspect of how people socialize in the real world that just doesn’t function at scale well. I miss doing things online, like playing early MMOs, where people actually felt that social contract still existed. Now you have to really try to find spaces where that magic is still alive because the cats out of the bag and we all know you can largely be an asshole on the internet without consequence.
I do like telling random fascists online to go fuck themselves though, lol.
Smaller communities also meant it was easier for mods to sniff-test users being assholes. Now with large-scale platforms using AI to auto-moderate, chuds figure out how to be assholes in ways that don’t trigger the algorithms.
Oh I thought you were saying people are better now that everyone is on reddit than when we were all in our own weird little corners hah. I definitely think there was more accountability back in those smaller communities where you had a reputation to stake rather than being able to spin up dozens of anonymous sock puppets, basically.
Yeah thats basically what I’m getting at. There was definitely still aggro people who would go out of their way to be a social menace in those small communities, but the social effect of the community had a powerful effect to keep people in check. Its obviously an aspect of how people socialize in the real world that just doesn’t function at scale well. I miss doing things online, like playing early MMOs, where people actually felt that social contract still existed. Now you have to really try to find spaces where that magic is still alive because the cats out of the bag and we all know you can largely be an asshole on the internet without consequence.
I do like telling random fascists online to go fuck themselves though, lol.
Smaller communities also meant it was easier for mods to sniff-test users being assholes. Now with large-scale platforms using AI to auto-moderate, chuds figure out how to be assholes in ways that don’t trigger the algorithms.