I think it varies per platform. LinkedIn fosters a disgusting ass-kissing “work comes first” culture. Facebook turned people into one-upping d-bags with highly curated feeds to showcase their constant “winning at life” bullshit. X/Twitter was a left bubble then a right bubble. Reddit is enshittified beyond recognition. It all sucks, just in different ways.
But perhaps the common factors are a sense of isolation and a disconnection from reality.
I still the info bubble thing to be bullshit. People hung out in places they liked in meatspace and lived in information bubbles before the internet. Its called a group of friends. If somone was well read they would have a nuanced view and most people depended on having a few noteworthy people to ask about complicated things. Open to everything on the internet means rooting around in a pile of shit at this point and the more you cut the shit away the easier it will be to find the rare gem.
I think it varies per platform. LinkedIn fosters a disgusting ass-kissing “work comes first” culture. Facebook turned people into one-upping d-bags with highly curated feeds to showcase their constant “winning at life” bullshit. X/Twitter was a left bubble then a right bubble. Reddit is enshittified beyond recognition. It all sucks, just in different ways.
But perhaps the common factors are a sense of isolation and a disconnection from reality.
… and a tendency, even on Fedi, of surrounding oneself in an information bubble
I still the info bubble thing to be bullshit. People hung out in places they liked in meatspace and lived in information bubbles before the internet. Its called a group of friends. If somone was well read they would have a nuanced view and most people depended on having a few noteworthy people to ask about complicated things. Open to everything on the internet means rooting around in a pile of shit at this point and the more you cut the shit away the easier it will be to find the rare gem.