The internet is a brutal place at times. To some, it can ruin someone’s well-being. To others, it’s a Tuesday. But the apps I just listed can have stuff that makes you question humanity. So which one of them has the most comments that shows you the worst of humanity? And feel free to share examples and your reactions
Still being on Twitter world be a red flag…
I log off a couple days ago and never looked back
A full couple of days? Wow, mister, will you teach us?
Twitter allows you to say the N word. And openly share racist shit. They allow you to dox and make threats to anybody that isn’t aligned with Musk. It’s also full of bots that retweet.
The worst part is that it feeds Grok. So Grok-powered bots say racist shit that get fed back into Grok.
Instagram, I barely used it and I saw a lot of dumb stuff and a lot of AI content. Incredibly users seem to like that kind of garbage where a guy yells for some reasons or the AI slop content. People repost some of that content from Instagram and TikTok to Reddit. I never understood why they need to yell, do ridiculous things and all that on some actual useful information making it unbearable to watch.
Reddit - Dunning Kruger: everyone thinks they’re experts in everything. Also psychotic mods.
Twitter - Nazis and Nerds: Anyone still on there for anything other than tech and some science news is either stupid or okay with supporting a Nazi.
Facebook - Anti-Vaxers and Pedophiles: the algorithm ensures that even the most hardcore science groups get flooded with anti-vax comments and intellectually disabled idiots.
Lemmy - Anti-Technologists: there’s a ravenous hatred for AI with zero consideration for how beneficial it is as a technology. Completely misdirected. Get pissed with the corrupt corporations and politicians selling out our privacy, content, land, water, and energy.
LinkedIn - Corporate sycophants and AI: want to talk about virtue signaling?
Find me an AI that wasn’t trained on stolen data by a power-hungry billionaire to make an excuse to buy up literally all the computers that humanity can produce while destroying social, political, and environmental conditions in order to corner the market and make us all subservient to their cloud for tasks we now depend on doing electronically, and it’ll be just fine with “AI”
Are you fine with the US? UK? France? Germany? Japan? China? How about Electricity? Does you car run on oil? Do you use plastic? How about nuclear power? Do you eat meat? Buy stuff online? Fly?
If we start judging things on their past/origins you won’t be able to use anything and live anywhere.
Facebook, sometime i went there for some search or event info, and then it will always have those post and comment with brain dead take that always make me regret setting foot there.
Facebook makes me question humanity most tbh.
IG’s algorithm is so well-attuned that I very rarely see content I don’t like.
Twitter’s a dumpster fire I don’t touch. and Reddit is just phobic garbage nowadays.
Its the content you don’t see though.
IG’s thirst farming stuff is the absolute creepiest to me.
Here - I don’t spend any time at those other places so I have no clue what they’re saying.
If you aren’t a Nazi why would anyone still be on Twitter?
If you think destroying the social fabric for advertising is cool keep using meta products
Reddit is just sad and bots.
Fediverse reminds me of early reddit, mostly cool, interesting people.
Up where the air is crisp.
Instagram for sure. Insane amount of Nazi comment, ragebait, racism and overall hatred.
I often feel like people on Instagram have not seen the sun light for a couple of months to a year.
Mainstream news publications and online newspapers.
In Canada and Québec specifically, the tabloid Journal de Montréal has always had the most ridiculously detached comments of any other platform I know.
It’s closely followed by the comments on some CBC news articles.
Every platform has its crazies. Even here, I frequently come across takes so ignorant and disconnected from reality that I wonder if the commenter fell through a portal from some parallel dimension.
Even on inane shit, the crazies really come out of the woodwork. I had someone suggest to me recently (on a different account) that I was a monster on par with Hitler for setting up Windows on my grandmother’s computer instead of forcing her to use Linux. She’s 87 and wants to type shit in word, she isn’t going to learn a whole new operating system and word processor for that when she can barely figure out how to log in to her email.
But VIM solves all these problems
You didn’t mention it, but 100% Facebook. Twitter is 2nd, but the edginess explains some of it away as cringe insecure angst. Facebook is people who are largely just incredibly fucking stupid and sheeplike.
once you get a good block list, lemmy is fucking awesome
Lemmy or LinkedIn. Facebook I long ago unfriended anyone crazy. Instagram I only have my dogs account and he just follows other dogs, so it’s quite nice.
Twitter is clearly the worst by a huge margin
Twitter.
