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The Silence Is Deafening | devonzuegel.com
I’m thinking out loud about this, but there’s something interesting about the idea that social-media platforms now create this real distance, in part by being text-heavy. And that distance can lead you to say things or do things you’d never do in the physical world. It also lowers the bar for engagement, which means that firing off a shitty tweet i... See more
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Conversation] devolves to histrionics and bitter sarcasm so that neither party comes away from the exchange with a sense of enlightenment, just reaffirmation of their self-proclaimed intellectual superiority over the anonymous Other.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
My own theory of Internet moderation is that you have to be willing to exclude trolls and spam to get a conversation going. You must even be willing to exclude kindly but technically uninformed folks from technical mailing lists if you want to get any work done. A genuinely open conversation on the Internet degenerates fast. It’s the articulate tro
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