All we did was give stupid people faster access to other stupid people and now we act surprised when the stupidity compounds

[hwll@sunny.garden]

@Daojoan internet access should start with 1 year of reading Wikipedia followed by 1 year of Talk pages followed by 1 year of contributions. Then another year of reading, then Talk, then contributions (it just keeps repeating—no one leaves Wikipedia).

[megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Bang on

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@Daojoan and yet... back in 1990 I was thinking that everyone would connect and be exposed to all the *good* info/culture/ideas.

Why did all the crap get boosted when all the good was there for the taking?

It can't be coincidence that I can pinpoint the moment I thought things were suddenly heading suckward - it was when everyone wanted to join Facebook, closely followed by Google buying up a bunch of services and merging all my accounts on them.

I was heavily into internet-enabled phones before "smartphones" became a thing, and again saw my hopes dashed when everyone jumped onto WhatsApp.

[gh0stlym0use@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan they can have the stupid. I just want their backend and protocols.

[sv1@mastodon.social]

@mossman @Daojoan "Peak internet" was when only informed/clever people managed to make web-pages and the label "content creator" was yet to be invented as a job title (blame the MBAs).

At that time I recall the stream of late Friday [dirty]-joke faxes, spending rolls of expensive thermal paper, from the people who hadn't figured out the Internet...

[shantara@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan There was a very appropriate quote in the original Terminator novelization (IIRC) that went along the lines of “Skynet is dumb, but it’s dumb very very fast”

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@Daojoan

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan When you lay a cable you can't control the level of stupidity that drives the electrons up and down of it.

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@Gh0stlyM0use @Daojoan - And give them the biggest boot in the rear as they get kicked out of the building

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@Daojoan stupidity²

[paulbusch@mstdn.ca]

@Daojoan

I think I've been sub-tooted...