Thinking about how we used to challenge strangers' opinions online without fear, and how that's vanished (it's a bit sad, honestly)

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A Wired piece from last year traced the decline to around 2012 with the rise of algorithmic content moderation. It's wild how much the tone shifted almost overnight, lmao.

patricia_knight1mo ago

@umaf44, that overnight shift? I stuck to small forums instead.

elliot8361mo ago

Read a similar article that said the same thing about 2012. Algorithms started picking what we see and killed random chats. Everything became made for clicks. It felt less like talking to people and more like feeding a machine. That's why I stick to smaller places too.