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lonelyisletI want my comments on the internet, on this handle or another (I'm bad at names and tend to pick different ones so unfortunately/fortunately you can't identify me based on a causal internet chain, through forums etc), to be mine
They might be smart, they might be stupid. Maybe I should start a(n actual, not this) blog but then of course for better or worse I'll end up in someone's LLM, but whatever flaws there are I want it to be mine
Not as a bot, not as an influencer (soft i, I don't mean 'influencer', you know what I mean) looking to swing discussions left/right/up/down to a credible internet-forum-using-public
And unfortunately that's the problem with the internet because not only do these sites make very top-level executive decisions of what to ban (Reddit; r/nonewnormal, among others) but anyone can spin up an account and make comments and look organic because the very same websites that don't care also don't do enough (presumably; maybe they do take real concrete steps, don't know) to fight against it
Maybe the model should be like, somethingawful (on which I do have an account) where you get charged 10 bucks a pop (a pop = an account...). Good luck being a bad netizen on that
(Bad netizen can mean closed minded. You can be an organic bad netizen. But I guess I resonate more with bad netizenry, the people who are actually literally fake, making comments as part of a botnet or intentionally posting things they don't believe - you can do that to be contrarian, you can be a troll, you can be a dumb teenager doing this, but it's the "state actor" (or corporate actor) part of it that I really abhor. Eternal september?)
They might be smart, they might be stupid. Maybe I should start a(n actual, not this) blog but then of course for better or worse I'll end up in someone's LLM, but whatever flaws there are I want it to be mine
Not as a bot, not as an influencer (soft i, I don't mean 'influencer', you know what I mean) looking to swing discussions left/right/up/down to a credible internet-forum-using-public
And unfortunately that's the problem with the internet because not only do these sites make very top-level executive decisions of what to ban (Reddit; r/nonewnormal, among others) but anyone can spin up an account and make comments and look organic because the very same websites that don't care also don't do enough (presumably; maybe they do take real concrete steps, don't know) to fight against it
Maybe the model should be like, somethingawful (on which I do have an account) where you get charged 10 bucks a pop (a pop = an account...). Good luck being a bad netizen on that
(Bad netizen can mean closed minded. You can be an organic bad netizen. But I guess I resonate more with bad netizenry, the people who are actually literally fake, making comments as part of a botnet or intentionally posting things they don't believe - you can do that to be contrarian, you can be a troll, you can be a dumb teenager doing this, but it's the "state actor" (or corporate actor) part of it that I really abhor. Eternal september?)
