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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now (www.stephendiehl.com)
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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 20 points 2 days ago

The modern internet is now a highly optimised machine for detecting human vulnerability, amplifying it, and placing a payment link beside it. Any insecurity can become a commercial niche, including the desire to escape commercial life itself. There is always a course, a newsletter, a private community, or a referral code waiting at the end of the funnel.

Just avoid social media. Social media is not the whole Internet.

[-] tf1@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Social media is not the whole Internet.

for some people it unfortunately is

[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

kid: mom, can we have socialism at home?

mom: we have socialism at home. ("social" media)

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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