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by mylasttour 1155 days ago
It really is an arbitrary diagram. Any regular user of any of these levels can confidently say all levels have "decomposed morals". All levels have videos of animal abuse, posts for teen prostitution, et cetera.

And there really is nothing cozy about data-hoarding closed mega-corp software like Discord and Snapchat. As convenient as they are, 'cozy' is not the word.

The writer likely just thinks "LinkedIn and Facebook == Bad!" and "My two Discord servers with my friends == Good!" and just made huge generalizations from there.
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rainonmoon 1155 days ago
The second paragraph quotes them as being "slum-like spaces" so I'm not sure where you derive cause for reducing the author's viewpoint to naive idealism like that. If anything this seems like a pretty conventional viewpoint these days, that the web has shifted from broadcasting to smaller peer-to-peer interactions. It doesn't seem particularly controversial.
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shadowgovt 1155 days ago
Sometimes a decomposing carcass ends up resting on the forest floor instead of buried or scavenged.

... but not for long, and it's not the expected common-case continuously-observed scenario when one walks in the woods. The point is that such a thing is a transient, unstable configuration at one layer and the expected configuration at another layer.

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