Lemmy and Mastodon are social media as well, and they are not profit driven. Non-social media like newspapers and cable TV also spread toxic content.
In the end, you got the causality reversed. Media (both social and non-social) gravitates towards what drives the most engagement. Negative/toxic content drives the most engagement because that content elicits a strong emotional response in the consumer.
Media amplifies the problem, but ultimately the problem is people. Toxic content is going to stick around until people stop giving it attention, and unfortunately in all of the history of humanity we have yet to figure out how.
There are plenty of real life scenarios that both equate and predate your example, and which don’t rely on anonymity. Lynch mobs in the US, rape gangs in southeast Asian countries, Hitler rallies, heck even bully groups among children. The size of the group does not have to be big to allow toxic behavior, as long as you have a catalyst (such as someone getting away with something) that engenders a feeling of safety from consequences and in- and outgroups. The Internet is just another medium for this behavior, anonymous or not. What is different is that the internet is the first medium that actively records it.
Apart from the license incompatibility (which doesn’t stop it from being used by distros, as Ubuntu has shown): While it’s a fantastic filesystem for servers, it is also resource hungry and not suitable for small or portable systems.
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
A Catholic priest in England was reported by his parishioners after he allegedly told them Jesus died with an erection. The Times of London reports that the diocese of Hexham & Newcastle investigated the complaint against Father Thomas McHale—an American assigned to Our Blessed Lady Immaculate in Blackhill for a decade—and...
I’ve mentioned a number of times, it can be a challenge trying to look for awesome pictures for you all every day due to unlabeled, uncited, or just falsely presented pictures....
Monthly would be nice, but don’t feel obligated to do it - we’d enjoy it but don’t burn yourself out providing content. What I would suggest though is to make sure you put a big “FAKE” watermark on them to avoid confusing the casual onlooker.
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr said he also suffered mercury poisoning from eating too much fish: ‘I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time’
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
As in you are seeing multiple boot entries? It’s likely one entry per kernel version that you have installed. It doesn’t happen often these days any more, but in some situations it’s handy to be able to revert to a previous kernel if for example third party modules break.
I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
Who agrees that the Internet and social media are toxic?
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina (arstechnica.com)
What did the lettuce say to the celery?
“Quit stalking me!”
Tesla Cybertruck Peeled Open Like A Can Of Sardines After Crashing Into A Ditch (www.carscoops.com)
"I sense great antici... pation" (lemmy.world)
credit to AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world for wanting dommy mommy Mirror Troi and TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world for the goatee tickle idea
ZFS High Availability with Asynchronous Replication and zrep (klarasystems.com)
Describes the zrep script that uses zfs send and receive over network to keep a read-only copy of snapshots up-to-date.
Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
Parishioners Report Priest for Saying Jesus Died With Erection (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Catholic priest in England was reported by his parishioners after he allegedly told them Jesus died with an erection. The Times of London reports that the diocese of Hexham & Newcastle investigated the complaint against Father Thomas McHale—an American assigned to Our Blessed Lady Immaculate in Blackhill for a decade—and...
Baybe what's wrong? You've barely touched your Strawberrum (jlai.lu)
Roger Corman, the king of B-movies, dead at 98 (feddit.nl)
A sad day indeed. Today’s movie landscape would’ve looked fastly different had it not been for his contributions to (b-)cinema....
Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet. (lemmy.world)
Things the "owl"-gorithm recommends to me... 😒 (lemmy.world)
I’ve mentioned a number of times, it can be a challenge trying to look for awesome pictures for you all every day due to unlabeled, uncited, or just falsely presented pictures....
Rex Murphy, the sharp-witted intellectual who loved Canada, dies at 77 (nationalpost.com)
As he battled cancer, Murphy continued to file, writing about Hamas and Christmas and interviewing Pierre Poilievre with his usual panache
[Request] Bleak/desolate/dreary looking movies. Basically where you seldom see the sun shine. (lemmy.world)
geteilt von: lemmy.world/post/15217776...
[Solved] [Punk] (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Tap for spoilerBad Brains - Sailin’ On You don’t want me anymore...
hmmm (lemmy.world)
gut pull (lemmy.world)
Art by me, after a typo by my friend.
RFK Jr says a worm ate part of his brain and then died inside his head (www.independent.co.uk)
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr said he also suffered mercury poisoning from eating too much fish: ‘I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time’
Touchy (mander.xyz)
Uuh grub? (programming.dev)
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
What is Reddit doing (feddit.nl)
I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.