i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

  • Sybil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Identity is the most important thing to people on the internet now

    which is honestly and deeply confusing. because on the internet no one knows you’re a dog! (oh. you got back to that two sentences later)

    i just don’t go in for identity. at all. no one knows i’m a dog, and i like it that way.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 months ago

      Don’t get me wrong, identity is important. Even on the internet it can make sense in certain contexts like if you have a community for people of that group. There’s a time and a place for that.

      But in most contexts it’s really unimportant in internet conversations.

      But with the rise in social media it’s become the most important thing on the internet to the point where people can’t express ideas or accept an idea without it being connected to a person’s identity. Back in the day when everyone was pseudo-anonymous there was a death of the author kind of thing on everything so it was 100% about ideas and 0% about identity.