In the 1980s to get online, in addition to grokking your PC you had to know how to configure a modem and a comms program, needed phone numbers for BBSes or online services. Nothing was just handed to you. Because of this friction, the user community we were left with were mostly -not- stupid people. Did we have trolls, yes. Even smart people can be toxic. But it wasn’t on Twitter or Facebook scale and they were easily dealt with. We can replicate that with this paradigm.
@jperlow Elon is like the epitome of a smart person who is toxic
@mcwm undoubtedly we will get some. They’ve always existed. we won’t be at the mercy of one single powerful one here either. We’ve got tools to deal with it here, as well as local liquor stores and dispensaries in more in more states if we need analgesics