Post #3246869
2025-03-21 00:52 UTC
@ntnsndr@social.coop I’m struggling to think of democracies that have become more healthy over the period in which social media became widespread. Isn’t there a serious argument to be made that we would be better off without social media?
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@ntnsndr@social.coop 2025-03-21 01:16
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @ntnsndr@social.coop It depends what you mean by social media. The agora enabled Athenian democracy. Coffeehouses and salons fueled the rise of Enlightenment republicanism. Early social networks aided the Arab Spring. But once powerful figure out how to centralize those platforms, they become counter-democratic.