Re:My Internet Mea Culpa: I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were
by CM30 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @01:02PM
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This point makes me wonder whether Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other such sites are simply fundamentally unworkable ideas:
> We are biological organisms with thousands of years of evolution geared towards villages of 100, 150 people. What on earth made us think that in the span of a single generation, after a couple generations in cities with lots of people around us but wherein we still didn’t actually know that many people, that we could suddenly jump to a global community?
The reason so many problems occur on them (brigading, uneven rule enforcement, the feeling that Nazis/antifa/whoever aren't being banned, etc)comes from the fact they're a million communities built on a platform run by a single organisation, and attempt to have groups of people who simply can't work together use the same platform and interact with the same user accounts.
They're trying to be a 'global city' inhabited by millions or billions of people, and are encountering the same issues every country or organisation does at that scale. On the other hand, old school internet forums and separated communities were like human villages of a few hundred people, self contained instances that could be run according to their inhabitants wishes and meant that those that couldn't interact civily for some fundamental belief difference didn't have to.
That seems to be a case where Zuckerberg and co were wrong, and where that's caused huge amounts of people to numerous people.
> We are biological organisms with thousands of years of evolution geared towards villages of 100, 150 people. What on earth made us think that in the span of a single generation, after a couple generations in cities with lots of people around us but wherein we still didn’t actually know that many people, that we could suddenly jump to a global community?
The reason so many problems occur on them (brigading, uneven rule enforcement, the feeling that Nazis/antifa/whoever aren't being banned, etc)comes from the fact they're a million communities built on a platform run by a single organisation, and attempt to have groups of people who simply can't work together use the same platform and interact with the same user accounts.
They're trying to be a 'global city' inhabited by millions or billions of people, and are encountering the same issues every country or organisation does at that scale. On the other hand, old school internet forums and separated communities were like human villages of a few hundred people, self contained instances that could be run according to their inhabitants wishes and meant that those that couldn't interact civily for some fundamental belief difference didn't have to.
That seems to be a case where Zuckerberg and co were wrong, and where that's caused huge amounts of people to numerous people.