If I tried to make reasonable points about anything, or god forbid, shared my experiences - I was downvoted into oblivion

Introducing quotes from authors that were related to the subject would really show how people were locked in the context of media immediacy, the environment. Links to outside citations would almost always generate replies from people who obviously did not study the citation and just wanted to respond back.

It used to be something people said ‘out loud’ about people not reading links and just commenting… then it just became normalized.

Interesting observation…

yes, reading code to people, basic interpretation. It’s a pattern that I think comes post Cambridge Analytica media tactics.

yes, interpretation of various things, not just reading normal prose.

lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are both down right now

I just signed up with lemmy.world because lemmy.ml is down.

lemmy.ml has been a slow-motion train wreck all June with errors and failing to send out federation copies. This asklemmy community is homed there, and a lot in the past 24 hours is missing.