this is a :a-guy: post

So my grandma couldn't live alone anymore and she moved into my parents house about a year ago. Her new bedroom doesn't have cable. Her media diet used to be like 90% TV and 10% internet. Now it's reversed.

She's 90 years old and just a conventional methodist.

What probably happened is she searched youtube for gospel music to do crosswords by. 100,000 iterations of the algorithm later she believes in ancient aliens, crises actors, millenarianism, all of it.

Same thing probably happened in rural communities who got the full internet all at once. They didn't get it by degrees, dial-up alta vista, to learn years of bullshit filtering heuristics.

  • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Same thing probably happened in rural communities who got the full internet all at once. They didn’t get it by degrees, dial-up alta vista, to learn years of bullshit filtering heuristics.

    Just for the record, this isn’t how rural internet works. We didn’t go from nothing to fiber. We got the same internet services everyone else did on a 5-20 year delay depending on where you’re at

    • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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      2 years ago

      I'm simple mountain folk so I saw it happen. It takes us longer to go from dial up to dsl and when we did graduate, we graduated into an internet close to its final form. City folk graduated into 2005 internet. (I said it entirely the wrong way in the OP. They didn't get it smoothly)

    • SpaceCosmonotkey [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Every year of delay in getting hooked in have the internet more and more time to become worse and crazier and more controlled