[fc417fc802]

It depends on if you frame it as a service versus as infrastructure that a service uses. The public roadways are similar streams of unfiltered sewage yet we see billboards along them and large businesses that care about appearances connect to them. Meanwhile gated communities also exist but are far from the norm.

> showing up in another context with your name attached, directly next to some extremely degenerate trash

Check out police bodycam footage on youtube for real world examples of exactly this.

[bflesch]

Such a bad comparison. The correct picture would be 10.000 people from St. Petersburg whose main job it is to drive through my street with a local number plate a million times per day, just to demonstrate to me that there is so much traffic on my road.

The economies of scale for creating sewage in social media are basically unbounded. Tens of thousands of people have a 9 to 5 job which consists of creating sewage content just to steer people towards a certain narrative.

[fc417fc802]

It's not a comparison but rather an analogy. Certainly it's quite a rough one. But it illustrates my key point well enough - that it is realistic to view infrastructure in a more or less neutral manner even when reputations are on the line.