< What we can do about the Internet
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~feareatsthesoil
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~inquiry wrote:
Looking back, my online experience might be characterized as an oscillation between the bliss of interaction hope, and dread induced by sneaking suspicions stated, in part, rather well
here. Specifically:
> I could overthink this, but it isn’t warranted. The
> reasons not to write here are all just themes I’ve
> been repeating at (numbing) length for years: Self-
> expression in the open seems like an attack surface.
> A public record is, as much as anything, a liability.
> Kinds of text that once felt liberating now feel like
> an embarrassment at best. The internet in general is
> owned by bad people and has gone septic as a culture,
> even as it determines culture as a whole.
And then, of course, there's
this.