AnilI 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!”
Ethan Jacobs@anildash there’s something almost impossibly seductive about exploring problems using our gut intuitions instead of doing the hard work of learning.
@ethanjacobslaw yeah perhaps so
@anildash psychologists may have written about the phenomenon, but I have some intuitions that explain it and they’ll match up with your own intuitions.