[mediaman]

Consider looking at social media less and reading more history. The idea that people are recently celebrating cruelty, but did not earlier, is charmingly nostalgic but not exactly historical.

[sleight42]

The scale of it, in the US, is new. Social media has enabled this scale.

Before that, we had... mailing lists? Web forums?

Before that? BBSs and in-person meetings.

Cheap and easy world-scale communication has fucked us at the same time it has helped us.

[ascendantlogic]

I'm talking about in my lifetime. Your nihilism may comfort you but it doesn't comfort me.