re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@kara_dreamer @Alyx imho there's enough worthwhile stuff in this shithole that I don't want to give up on it yet
most of my friends I met via communities formed around websites, frex
there's a lot of learning I wouldn't have had without it
re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@packbat @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe *sighs* yeah, I can't deny that, although I feel like web learning is very much a poisoned pill. sure there's info to be found but you practically have to teach yourself to be a media expert just to find the shit you can actually _trust_. 95% of the web is ad copy, basically
re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@Alyx @kara_dreamer I'm inclined to suspect that it's not so much people not existing as people being impossible to find
pre-SEO, search engines would find you the enthusiasts who are interested in what you're interested in, but that doesn't happen any more
so it's luck into a connection or luck into the right search terms or ... well, luck, it's just luck
if I were trying to change the web, I'd be trying to make us luckier - trying to get more people with "here are a bunch of links about plurality!" and "here are a bunch of links about numismatics!" and "here are a bunch of links about tea!" or whatever, so the links happen by more people's reach...