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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Honestly I joined the fediverse apps instead of traditional social media, Lemmy and Firefish and Pixelfed. It's quite nice on all of them, I got rid of Twitter and Instagram and probably will quit Facebook next. It feels much better.
When some nihilistic edgelord cares too much about others caring about something and screeches "WHO CARES?" or "NO ONE CARES" 
thought-terminating cliches to try to shut discussion down, I voluntarily say "I care" and that often shuts them up and whatever was being cared about usually continues.
It's a small thing, but I think it makes a local difference.
Remove anonymity.
Iβm not advocating for that. The internet would be a boring dystopia, but it sure as shit would be nicer if every statement could be tied back to a real person.
Would it? Facebook is a cesspool.
I doubt even a third of facebooks profiles can be easily traced to a real person. Be that as it may, I answered the wrong question so itβs a bit of a moot point.
I don't think this is the case. People are assholes in real life too. People get videos taken of them being violent or racist all the time and they don't care. They just come up with some bullshit excuse. Look at all the celebrities that said some dumb shit in Twitter and the next day was like "whoa lol don't drink and take ambian."
Agree lots of people are assholes in real life too.
I donβt think the internet would suddenly be βniceβ (and boring). It would be βniceRβ though.
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Probably nothing since I have no free time π
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Shit talk misogynists
Once in a while i dont respond to stupid comments....
Dns ad blocker and I don't use big tech sites almost at all.
Don't participate or be involved in the most popular online communities. I find once an online community reaches a threshold it goes to shit. Finding your niche people online is the best way to finding a nice place you belong.
Sometimes I'll write out a big mean comment, and then I just hit the back button instead of posting it
Run a pihole and block degenerates
Stop feeding off what is given to you and look for and search for quality, informative, objective content that is not manipulated to play with you emotions.
The internet is many things other than just a place to waste away your time, energy and awareness of the world.
Provide detailed help troubleshooting people's tech problems.
My response might become helpful to many people in the future, even if it doesn't help the person who originally asked the question.
-Improve moderation of major social sites with more penalties for harassment. I feel like the lack of proper moderation has encouraged people to be needlessly mean over petty nonsense and sometimes even ruin lives.
-Add more privacy protections
-Force websites that allow both minors and 18+ content to have NSFW filters in place by default for anyone under 18 (looking at you Twitter)
-Getting rid of intrusive ads
-Have websites show posts in order, unless it's something like Lemmy or Reddit where the other options at least make sense
-Websites should be given legal repercussions in knowingly spreading dangerous conspiracies (such as Facebook doing nothing about posts encouraging violence against a minority group in Myanmar eventually leading to genocide)
Agree with the narrative so everyone feels safe and secure
people like the hexbear news threads I guess
Argue with random people on the Internet so they can see how cool I am and how smart my ideas are.