2026-11-01 20:51 UTC
Here in the US we are so used to being bullshitted by hucksters that many of us have become cynical: we reject *everyone’s* opinion, including those who are acting in good faith, because we assume *everyone* is lying to exploit us. This too is destructive, because it doesn’t help to create create an environment in which honest discourse can occur; and worse: it gets in the way of people who are trying to build it. Cynicism is not the antidote to bad faith; good faith is.
https://humancode.us/2025/01/21/resist-cynicism
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-11-01 20:53
@drahardja@sfba.social yet another ill effect of algorithmic social media: since the algorithms reward acting like a huckster, honest posters need to adopt at least some of the affect of a huckster to get a chance of broad attention
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@datarama@hachyderm.io 2026-11-01 20:56
@drahardja@sfba.social A former coworker, who grew up in the DDR, told me that that was what public life there was like in the last years before the wall fell. Everyone was so used to being propagandised to that most people kinda just assumed that everything was a lie. In fact, in the regions of the DDR where Western media was available, people were generally *less* west-friendly - because they assumed that Western media was lying to them as well.