alt Hacker NewsI get your opinion on networks like battle.net. These also did wonders for me as a person and getting me into IT in the first place, got me connected with people double my age who just taught me valuable lessons on teamwork and growing up.
With my comment I was looking more into the direction of "the social media", where everything seems fake. I luckily grew up, when everything was still based on an actual timeline and not a deeply optimized algorithm.
Yeah I think I kind of accidentally conflated some stuff in that comment. I’m more just broadening out - social media is particularly harmful, but there are parts of the Internet outside of social media that are also not great.