Cindy Cohn Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta 'Less Important' | Video
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Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    8 days ago

    I know you’re joking, but it made me think.

    On platforms like Twitter I never felt seen. I felt like I was talking to myself for the 30 seconds I actually engaged with it (I never could stand the format or the interface really).

    On Lemmy I do feel seen, because it’s so much smaller. I know people read what I write and I get way more feedback here than I’ve ever gotten since (maybe) 2010-era Reddit.

    But important? Anyone who can use the Internet to make themselves feel important must have been a sociopath to begin with because as near as I can tell the Internet is a misery machine designed to make you feel like a dumbshit.

    Come to think of it, that’s probably why I hate the entire concept of “influencers” and the human toilets who call themselves that.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      For me it’s just the character limit.

      I like reddit because people could write in paragraphs. Twitter never had any appeal to me because it could never be more than slogan-slinging and when i briefly used it it just seemed utterly stupid to be limited to like 10 words.