Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
I didn’t build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.
I thought humanity’s problem was lack of access to information. The Internet proved I was catastrophically mistaken. The real world beat that idealistic youth to submission.
Turns out what we needed was less access to misinformation.
Same here. I didn’t understand that people with power tend to find ways to make the voices they like louder, even when we all had a vote in what was popular they found a way.
And then the other thing. People tend to believe what they want to believe and outrage is often just a form of entertainment.