Damnit Bobby
JA WestenbergThe internet didn’t make us stupid. It made stupidity scalable.
Colman Reilly@Daojoan nah, just made it more visible.
David Penfold 
Passwordsarehard4
Eric Goodwin@Daojoan it’s the microstupid architecture. More efficient
Barbara Sliwinska@Daojoan we poles have phrase: 'before there was internet, only your family knew you are moron.'
Wilfried Klaebe@Barbara_Sliwinska Well, possibly the village too.
Peter@Daojoan
Oh I'm DEFINITELY keeping that one in my back pocket.
And it's *perfect* for a Monday.
Dan Neuman 🇨🇦@Daojoan Yup, now the loons with signs on street corners can all meet up rather than be loony in isolation.
nixCraft 🐧@Daojoan cheap data plans and android phone made everything worse
Marcus The Board Gamer
Kevin Karhan 
@lordsplodge @nixCraft @Daojoan that's because the #Internet became #accessible for #TechIlliterates & #MediaIlliterates and #Consoomers who are either unable or unwilling to use their brains.
- It was a mistake to let #Boomers and #MassMedia be allowed online!
👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵@Daojoan Wow.... That's a great point! Love it...
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@Daojoan
Stupid As A Service
Stupid As A Service
Tim Hergert@Daojoan And resilient.
RRB@Daojoan Was Kurt Cobain right? It is contagious.
Giles Edwards@Daojoan The stupidest thing Intelligence ever did was not fashion itself the path of least resistance.
Jeff Atwood@Daojoan it made everything scalable, but the good people are too quiet.
Squads@Daojoan why are you saying so?
william.maggosthe internet gave us access to everyone willing to claim anything (lots of it stupid that got ignored). that was mostly good because some things have never been given proper attention cause the old structures didn't favor them (see Chomsky). we mostly didn't fuck things up until corporate social media with algorithms and funded by ads showed up to spread stupidity that emotionally triggers us for profit.
Scrimshaw@wjmaggos @Daojoan This is the important part. The internet has been remade to encourgage stupid + boost stupid. We had social media in the old internet going back to The Well + ICQ + chat rooms + web forums, it didn't get fully stupid until Arab Spring + Tea Party Movement + Occupy Wall Street revealed it's power & FB + everyone else right after monetized it & added their algorithums. That said, we never had a thing like TikTok then, which creates a very aggressive onset type of brain rot.
zetabeta@Daojoan
i have this saying.
democracy, is a system, where voters stupidity concentrates into extremely stupid politicians.
hint: you could do reverse.
Viss@Daojoan i do love the addage:
"the internet was supposed to make people smarter. instead, it made stupid people louder"
Louis
James Trickle uP@Daojoan Truer words were never said
El Pamplina 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 
@Daojoan We used to be just as stupid, but in private.
Old Joe Stalin@Daojoan The great benefit of the Internet is that anyone can opine. The great drawback of the Internet is that anyone can opine, comrade.
Luke: grue fodder@Daojoan stupidity as a service
Doppelmembran-WürgenippelStupitity hyperscaler 😉
CodeResearcher
T2R@Daojoan No truer words about the internet have been written.