03-16-2022, 08:15 AM
(03-16-2022, 07:25 AM)Massacre Wrote: True, but the current trajectory of the internet is towards greater and greater user passivity, and vastly diminished user agency with regard to content selection/engagement - the model of facebook, twitter, instagram is a single, algorithm-generated endlessly scrolling feed (from what I understand tiktok is even worse, but I don't know because I've never used it) - you can like and comment on posts/videos, but 95% of the user experience is just mindlessly imbibing the content-stream. The combination of this with ultra-heavy moderation on virtually all heavily trafficked platforms has basically turned social media into TV with more channels and personalised content for the vast majority of internet users.
btw this has a large ripple effect on non-ZOGged platforms, e.g. gab going with a twitter-style feed model, the mass death of non-4chan imageboard websites (and the cultural subjection of surviving imageboards to mainstream social media content/crossposters), the decline of specific interest-based BBS forums, etc.
Having won freedom from passive, generic ZOG-approved content-delivery due to the internet replacing TV, I think the next phase is to try to resist the re-encroachment of that same passive experience by cultivating and maintaining strong prejudice against normie and non-racist eceleb content (the main vectors of a centralising, increasingly passive/receptive internet user-culture).
It's the trouble of 'content' again. People want low-level stimulation as an anaesthetic. Half a lack of capacity to appreciate anything higher and half being too worn down by life to have the energy to aim as high as they could. Being a NEET means more than that you're the kind of 3 digit IQ person who doesn't want to work, the state of not working does wonders for the mind. Tired people need fodder, men enjoying their leisure seek pleasure. Anaesthetics and aesthetics respectively.
The internet can't make you an aristocrat any more than a college degree. Sites and circles like these are important to keep good borders and divisions up, give people options. Don't want humans languishing with the herd-animals. As you say, 4chan is losing its distinct edge, and other circles are dying off. This is very bad. The parts of the internet that aren't Fisher-Price should be available and accessible and plentiful for the worthy. I owe a lot of the value I've gotten out of the internet to having fallen into some harder core places out of some less serious entry level ones like 4chan. We don't want the paths getting all torn up behind us.
