There was a story recently about a depressing number of web domains disappearing. Everybody just gravitates to the big corporate sites now, and it makes the internet ecosystem boring and less diverse.
It's the equivalent of Walmarts running every mom & pop store out of town.
Absolutely. People want there to be a fair trade-off, but life just doesn't work that way. I've seen similar romanticization of autism too, especially with the "savants".
I think it's definitely had the positive effects that you mention. People are far less cruel, more understanding, and also WAY more willing to go seek help with these types of problems than they used to be.
The negative effect is that anytime something becomes romanticized, it's human nature for people to adopt it as an identity, which introduces a lot of noise to the conversation, and we lose some of our objectivity toward it, as now there's an emotional attachment to the label itself. For example:
Back in the day (early 2010s?) of tumblr, when people first started collecting mental health labels like personal trading cards.
Or now, with the plethora of pseudoscientific misinformation about mental health on tiktok: random people are just making up terms or symptoms and pitching them in a nearly universally relatable way like horoscopes.
If you offer people a label that makes them feel part of a group, supported, and potentially explain why a bunch of things in their life are hard, it's in our nature to gravitate toward that.
All that being said, I still think it's a net-positive effect. This is just what happens anytime something clinical enters the mainstream conversation.
Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
It should be about *rehabilitation* ( lemmy.world )
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"Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part. ( lemmy.world )
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This is nothing short of a miracle. ( lemmy.world )
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Inverted ( lemmy.world )
Fly, you fools! ( lemmy.world )
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He's alive?! ( lemmy.world )
Almost all of the American ones I've heard of are terrifying. ( lemmy.world )
Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company ( www.theverge.com )
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Checkpal ( lemmy.world )
Whose Turn Is It Anyway? ( lemmy.world )
Seeing more than he should... ( lemmy.world )
Who lives in a Pineapple in the Algorithms Library for C? SpongeBob BinaryTreePants! ( lemmy.world )
Chess Behavioral Therapy (CBT) ( lemmy.world )
He deserves better ( lemmy.world )
Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. ( www.xataka.com )
It's all in the past now ( lemmy.world )
Because it takes slightly less mental energy to sit and stress than to do the thing. ( lemmy.world )
Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?
Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
The Conscience of the Wig ( startrek.website )
The end of an era? ( lemmy.world )
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Being one with the natural world ( lemmy.world )
Responsible guidance is a choice ( lemmy.world )
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What the DM plans vs. How the players approach the campaign ( lemmy.world )
Take a wild guess... ( lemmy.world )
Does any genre do this better than power metal? ( lemmy.world )