It’s not so much not to trust anything it’s more that the average person doesn’t really know how to interact online (this is probably a generational thing). Like my mom, she’s utterly clueless when it comes to online bad actors. She just assumes everything is true because it fits her narrative and anything that runs counter to it must be false. It’s very hard to break that line of reasoning when there’s emotional investment. So my view isn’t so much nihilistic as it is defeatist/pessimistic. I think the best thing is to forge communities online and stop the enclosure of the online commons but that takes effort which the average person may not have (time and/or money). And considering how soul sucking capitalism is it’s gonna be a hella of a time for anyone to do that.
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