Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by fifilura on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:55PM (#42953343)

Interesting. Would this be implementable today but on a larger scale?

"Someone who cares about you on the internet"

instead of

"Something that prevents you from posting hate/snuff/nude on the internet"

Obviously lots of problems, tons of them, and 1984 vibes, but still, the basic idea. A bit more like humans were meant to interact?

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by the_pwner224 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:47PM (#42954877)

Yes: "Better Living Through Algorithms" - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/

It's an interesting relevant short story. Won the 2024 Hugo Award. It was posted a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263876

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by archagon on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:17PM (#42955282)

Corporate social media does not care about its users. They are just biomass to fuel various goals: ad revenue, political influence, etc. In fact, the more addicted you are, the better.

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by fifilura on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:52PM (#42958437)

And the weather does not care about farmers either.

It is obviously a completely unfinished thought.

But something about humans innate tendency to self-organise into tribes and villages.

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by neom on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:46PM (#42954047)

I think sadly the scale becomes less about the size per say and more about the unpredictability. The "vibes" on the internet late 90s early 2000s where very... on point, so it didn't feel like emotional labour. I can imagine being someone who cares about someone on the internet in 2025 would be, frankly, exhausting, in 2002 it was just fun.

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