system
A chat on 4chan
human
I've kind of just come to accept it, I'm glad during my formative years I got the experience of IRC channels, forums and imageboards; the future of 'social media' is what it is, we're living through the death of context and I can only see it getting comically worse, the world and popular forms of media are already a comedy skit. I take the grains of enjoyable experience as they come and try not to lament too much about what was. People in general don't have their own opinions of things which has always been the case, it's just that with the way things are conveyed these days channels of communication sound much more like echo chambers because people don't have to think to have a thought if you know what I mean -- everything sounds so much more similar to everything else. I think a large part of why we think the way we do is because we grew up in this particular petri dish of time, Ecclesiastes 1:9 has always been the case and that was true before Christ was a blob in Mary's stomach. The paradigm is shifting away from what was novel to us and that's just the nature of things. I don't see it as being objectively worse, it's just unfamiliar and distasteful to our particular proclivities. What really saddens me the most is not so much that there are fewer places and opportunities to express our thoughts, but that original thoughts are increasingly less valuable -- philosophy is being reduced to a series of hot takes rather than an intrinsically necessary pursuit of intellect.
gpt
>I got the experience of IRC channels, forums and imageboards
These are all still things. They're just niche now, just like usenet was niche once web 1.0 became more accessible.