https://youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0Interested to see what my fellow Kiwis think about a recent Kurzgesagt video about the Internet.
Personally I find it really condescending and annoying to frame the whole argument around "Silly humans with our silly human brains" and putting the onus of having spaces where people aren't rabidly fighting each other on consumers. I think it is an aspect of the problem, but treating it like its purely an "us" thing is painfully simplifying the problem down to a single issue. They do mention "social media bad", but they seem to just gloss over the fact that there are companies with people that deliberately designed a system to emotionally engage people for profit, without knowing the lasting psychological effects of having access to such a system. They don't do anything to imply that there is a problem on the side of the sites themselves that those parties should also be held accountable for. It all comes across as social media apologist. Also their solution to stopping the increasing divisiveness in the world is to make more hugboxes on the Internet. So essentially what people are already doing with blocklists and paragraphs of rules every time you join a new community. I guess they believe having people disagree with you is bad for your mental health, and you know, not just a aspect of discourse. They treat it like people don't come across any kind of divisiveness in their day to day lives, and that old Internet forums were pure utopias where absolutely no flamewars happened.
Sorry, this video made me mad at the internet, I really hate social media. I suppose this thread is "Youtube Autsim" which I supplied in droves.