I don’t argue or “debate” online. Most online back-and-forth feels pointless and often intentionally inflammatory or in bad faith. I read all the replies I receive, but I rarely respond.
Similar to treat others as they treat you. I can’t count how many times, people have decidedly confronted me to be a asshole of a bastard, then are quick to play the victim fiddle soon as it is handed right back at them. Don’t be a prick or you’ll get the treatment right back. I don’t care what you’re going through or anything, I’ll automatically assume you’ve got no life going for you to be acting like a bitch to people online.
What do you mean you dont argue or “debate” online? Whats that supossed to mean? YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME?!"
Get mad at everyone. Take it all seriously. If you stop caring deeply you lose.
Lurk first, then respond. You might find more context in the replies.
I like good faith, polite discussion and debate. Unfortunately, everyone wants to dominate or win and few will make a concession that they might have been wrong, even if you’re using the gentlest of hands.
Block any and all advertising at all times.
Never take off your pirate hat because you never know when you’ll need it again.
I genuinely can’t figure out why there are so many people who are happy to let adverts fill their day. Or at the very least, don’t really notice it.
I had a shit fit today because I worked out that the Lidl app won’t let me use its payment system if I turn off notifications, which I did because Herr Lidl dared to send me an advert for whatever shit he’s selling this week - as a fucking notification! That’s one advert. I got the hump over one advert.
But there are vast swathes of people who just don’t seem to care how clogged their browsing experience is.
Goddamned right. There were several years when I’d let it go, because Netflix and the like were providing a good, fairly priced service. When they finally gave me the fuck you, I cancelled it on my 10th anniversary as a customer, along with every other streaming service. Took me a minute to get back in the swing, but the salty sea air is so nice again.
I (try to) only interact with positivity.
If someone posts a thread along the lines of “Which album/movie/book/whatever do you hate, even though every one else loves it”, I’ll scroll on, despite my worst instincts wanting to dive in to see if people hate something I love. I know why people post like that; because engagement on negatvity is always higher. But I feel like every time I engage with content like that, it makes me a little more cynical. I’m done being cynical, the world around me has more than enough already.
If someone pops up in my replies being a dick, I’ll just mute, block or ignore them. Life’s too short to spend it trying to lower cortisol levels.
Basically, the internet is already negative enough, so I try not to add to it.
Remember EVERYONE has a voice, everyone contains very dumb people.
Assume everything you post is gonna be there forever.
Corollary: Don’t assume you’ll have access to your accounts forever.
Every debate I tried to engage was poisoned by immature people trying to be cunning instead of bringing productive arguments.
That sounds like a constant pain.
Assume someday someone will find your account or identity.
Debates go two ways. If you’re not willing to listen to the other person with at least some politeness, you’re not debating and it makes it hard to take you seriously.
- Be positive
- Don’t let anything negative get to you
- It’s not my duty to convince anyone. If they hold a stupid position, don’t try to debate
- when making conversation, bail once they start treating it as an argument they need to win
- OPs mom is fair game
Same as life: Respect yourself. Respect others. Respect property.
We should all explore more, not stay stuck in a bubble of 6 or so megacorp websites that take most of the worlds traffic.
The internet is distributed, with billions of websites that are all unique.
Even if it’s difficult to find new websites to look at, then choose a different internet medium such as dark net browsers such as tor and i2p to explore the more privacy respecting web, or on the lighter side, go for geminispace or gopher browsers like Lagrange to explore the un-corporatised early internet style web.
It’s hard to explore when you don’t know where to look.
