I am trying to talk less about social media drama on here, but I will say it is sort of my personal hell to have spent roughly two decades thinking deeply about decentralized social media, content moderation policy, managing bad-faith actors, systematic online abuse, and the role of journalists in the architecture of generative online platforms, and see a broad public discussion going on where the loudest voices are all approaching this with “I don’t know much, but here’s my first thought!”
@anildash this is how I and all my historian friends felt every time something big happened ~2015 to now and it’s the worst. Expertise gets ignored in favor of whoever has the biggest megaphone