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  • SlothMama@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•So professional looking it must be true
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    2 months ago

    From Western media in English. You’re in a cultural and linguistic bubble online where people who think like you ( or within an expected range of dissenting opinions ) post and respond.

    The ideas and values you see and even have fall into a range that believe it or not is different in other communities, often segregated by language.

    It’s hard to explain if you’re a monolinguist, but the language you speak includes ideas and cultural nuance for idea that doesn’t often cross the language and cultural boundaries.

  • SlothMama@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•So professional looking it must be true
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    2 months ago

    Honestly if you’re living in a Western country, you are a victim of major anti North Korean propaganda that goes all the way back to the Korean War.

    Like, North Korea is nowhere near as bad as people think, and it’s people are fairly happy, yes the government censors and controls media, but it also creates a unified and strong society with far less division than all these Western countries tearing themselves down the middle about which party is less evil.

  • SlothMama@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.world•Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West?
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    4 months ago

    I miss it. I came over right after Digg died, almost half a decade before 2010. Thought it was the ugliest site I had ever seen and found it super confusing.

    People did largely speak their minds though, lots of controversial posts and uncensored humor, yeah it was nice, but the change in Reddit really mirrors general cultural changes too, it was more driven by Gen X and older millennials, more tech driven, and more what people would call edgy.

    It was the wild west not so much because Reddit specifically was, but because that’s what broad tech bro Internet culture was. We also had relatively unmoderated Xbox Live and online gaming and other things that are hard to explain to folks now.

    What we would call social media existed, Digg called it Social Bookmarking for a Digg / Reddit / Slashdot model. Myspace was just giving away to Facebook, Twitter was getting off the ground, and chat rooms, like Yahoo chatrooms and Geocities were so unhinged back then.

    2005 is around the time that Yahoo started looking major ground to Google when just a few years prior it was the undisputed default search engine.

    Neat to think about all this again.