Getting sick and tired of the New Dark Ages everywhere I turn.

[True Blue Door]

85. Interesting article. Social media enables "long tail" activism.

Low activation energy, low risk tolerance. Works by reducing response friction, so people are both more likely to participate and more likely to stop participating.

That might be why I've never liked social media. It's two-dimensional, and the full reality is that it's rigidly controlled and exploited by its corporate ownership.

It's also based on the false belief that the internet is public domain, when it's constantly censored and its history rewritten - if not for any sinister reason, then simply because nobody bothers to continue hosting ancient information that's never accessed anyway.

Volumes of human thought and experience that in the past would be recorded in letters, journals, and documents just evaporate into thin air.