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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

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Well, "social media" and "online" ain't the same thing, now are they?

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 9 points 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 8 points 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...

this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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