| ▲ | rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 2 hours ago | |
Yeah yeah yeah, everyone's a bot expect you with all the right opinions... | ||
| ▲ | Barbing an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
hehe :) What's a good way to think about this? Because it does cross my mind about the billions of dollars at play - at the same time, I'm not a pessimist. I think my middle ground is kind of just the usual, taking things with a grain of salt. I mean, I chose to reply to this comment in good faith it's human to human, commenter to unpaid/unaffiliated commenter. I hope I keep that faith. I hope our billions of neighbors on the web enable me to keep that faith over the coming years. Definitely uncertain about the future of the web but want to love it like I've loved it 1990s-today. (Guess I should volunteer w/the EFF while job hunting, try for for-purpose jobs...) | ||
| ▲ | jmull an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I don’t know why you dismiss it. There is plenty of astroturfing here, bots and otherwise. I believe the rule around here is to not assume everyone who disagrees with you or has opinions you don’t understand is a shill. Perhaps there’s a bit of that in the post you replied to, but to me seems mostly about mourning the loss of quality conversations online. Gotta say, I agree. Not that things were ever great, but it’s really in the crapper now. | ||