very few people understand that when people used to say “there are no girls on the internet” that this was an observation and not a statement of policy. social media-ization of the internet and proliferation of photo and video equipment is what changed that (in certain domains)
imagine living in a time where being “attractive” online granted you zero extra social capital because your name and what you were saying was never linked to a real life persona and to create this link was just seen as strange and tryhard. that existed. that was real
my tech ideology is internet primitivism. i like the internet and it is good but it has been too paved and centralized around a handful of nodes (technocratic anti-citadels). social media-ization of the internet and its consequences have been a disaster
