The emergence of social media has destroyed all the small communities to standardize communication and information.
It’s a bit of a digital version of rural exodus. And since 2017/2018, I’ve noticed that everything that, in my opinion, represented the internet has disappeared.
I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet.
“social media” as buzzword (scientific speech, scientific image) and “social media” as political violence (commercial speech, manifest image) are two different beasts under the empire of law.