This article from 2022 does a very good job of capturing the social media landscape and the condition of political discourse right now. It highlights one thing that I’ve been hearing a lot and agree with, the cruelty is the point.
Oh my this blog post has staying power. I read it, fortunately for me, about when I joined the fediverse, and it really set the tone and affirmed so much about what this whole thing is about.
And again and again, it comes up in my feeds as someone discovers it again.
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Oh my this blog post has staying power. I read it, fortunately for me, about when I joined the fediverse, and it really set the tone and affirmed so much about what this whole thing is about.
And again and again, it comes up in my feeds as someone discovers it again.