It feels like Schrodinger's Asshole's have become so much more prominent online in recent years and I think its a consequence of how cynical people have become. Its definitely a way for people to signal their actual beliefs and then attempt to bail out when they face social repercussions for those beliefs.

I think authenticity as to who is actually making post on any social media is very important. With Donald Trump any tweet on his account is assumed to be his as it was his personal account, so having knowledge that another person was making tweets under his name is certainly frustrating.

User friction is any barrier that keeps people from staying on your site and is usually some kind of impedance. Things like too many ads, slow loading pages, bugs, and unintuitive design come to mind. User friction is broken into three categories, Emotional friction, Cognitive friction and Interaction friction. Minimizing these are key in good web design.

In the online world today the presence of both 4-chan and 8-chan has become so much more prevalent. It feels like I see it mentioned almost everywhere, and especially when it comes to violent acts. In most instances of mass shootings or political attacks the perpetrator has had some presence on message boards like this.

I find it incredibly funny that up to 76% of all traffic to advertisers on X during the 2024 Superbowl was fake especially because of Elon's claims that Twitter was heavily botted just a few years prior. X in my experience has been one of the most heavily botted platforms, so this data alligns with my experience aswell.

An example of pernicious ignorance in social media interaction would be the lack of an option to pick pronouns for yourself on websites. For trans people this makes interacting a lot more welcoming as it keeps people from being misgendered.

Tweet Delete is a service similar to ones like redact.me which scrub someones past digital footprint. Most of the time these services are used to clean unfavorable post from someones name which is in a weird grey area for me. If someone is going back to delete controversial post that they no longer agree with made several years ago, it is totally understandable. But more often then not it is used by people who still hold those views and simply want to sweep them under the rug and out of sight of the public.

Allowing bots on social media platforms positively affects the platforms profitability by driving more engagement. For example, a twitter bot that tracks the flight logs of certain celebrities allows for users to comment on the post and captures eyes. The more post on a platform, the better.

I personally think that its a way of thought termination so that they don't have to grapple with the responsibility they hold over their creations. In my eyes they are focused on pushing a product and the results of that product are the peoples problem, and that eventually some kind of regulation or protections will be placed on it. Personally I think that they should be active in combating the negative aspects of their product to better everyone.

As some other people have mentioned I understood Nihilism prior to this section as a framework surrounding the idea that nothing matters due to our meaninglessness and mortality. I don't believe that most Nihilist believe that "There is no right or wrong" since some actions can objectively looked at in a right/wrong dynamic (reasonless murder for example), instead I think that they simply don't care about how right or wrong an action is. Generally I disagree with this framework pretty heavily as I think that it is a very dismissive way to tackle the meaning of life and our responsibilities as humans in a shared world.