[mungoman2]

Imo the difference is enormous between social media and forums.

Infinite feeds are designed to game you for attention, whereas the forums of yore were there to facilitate discussions.

I'm sure some forums would also have liked to game you if they could, but they didn't have the scale to always have something juicy to serve up.

To me it's super uncomfortable to expose my kids to a product designed by large teams with the goal of making it addictive.

[peyton]

The bodybuilding.com forums always had something juicy to serve up. Today’s social media really isn’t much different.

I find it uncomfortable for the government to yoink any citizen’s access to discussion platforms. I would be more comfortable with other means.

[ottah]

We grew up with 24 hour cable news. Same thing, different medium.

Remember how they manipulated us into believing in weapons of mass destruction? They would have done it with the genocide in Gaza, if it wasn't for the ability of people to share uncensored information through social media.