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Counter point, the apple was social media.
Anonymous forums that had a barrier to entry of needing to be tech savvy worked really really well.
It was the dumbing down of software this did us in.
If a perfect world requires that we hide it from 99% of the population... that's not a perfect world, it's an echo chamber.
Not hide, make them need to understand how computers and critical thinking works before being able to use it.
Barriers to entry have always existed for most hobbys and forums. When capitalists decided to monetize the internet, they tried and succeeded making the internet barrier non existent.
The barrier to entry would've been way higher on the "understanding computers" front than "critical thinking". I feel like that might've made the tech-bro trend worse in the long run.
Which still side steps the inevitability of social media.
These are two very different things.
Being comfortable enough with computers to use anonymous forums - say, 4chan - does not neccesarily imply critical thinking skills and does not stop people getting unneccessarily upset at the harmless behaviour of others.
I fully agree hence why I think the barrier to entry to go on 4chan is waaaay to low these days and it was much better in the 90s.
How did the apple grow? The fruit doesn't form a tree from its stem.
Yes but the tree was not the problem in genesis, eating the apple was.
We can go as far as to say it’s God’s fault for not restricting them (especially since he should have predicted the future).
Internet would have been fine without the money parasites trying to monetizing everything by maximizing engagement (rage).