2/ wife and I talk a lot about twitter / youtube / etc communities. There are several, and they all operate the same way: - guy has something to say - says it - accumulates small audience - loves dopamine hit of followers - ...but has said the 1 thing he knows - ...
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3/ and so he does the only thing he can: repeats stuff that he's learned from other twitter accounts / youtube channels / etc in the same space. Thus you get these endless feedback loops, like an echo chamber, or photons bouncing back and forth in a ruby with 99.9% silver ends
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4/ ...each photon / twitter thread / youtube video triggering other members of the community to drop to a lower energy state and emit some recycled content wife says that "prepping" youtube is 99% this
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5/ "here's a bracelet you can make w paracord. I didn't make this one, but there are instructions online. This way, if you ever need paracord, like, to do survival fishing with, you've got it. Also, I've never done survival fishing."
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6/ "here are the six things to be cognizant of in your Combat Operational Weapon Systems Space [ N.B. I've never been in a gunfight, but I watched a video from some guy who took a class by a guy that was ] "
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7/ It's like Ezra Klein or Matt Yglesias posting about public policy, except fewer people die bc of the stupidity involved.
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Just all homesteading online content in general really. There really is a lot of "try this one weird trick" stuff involved as people try and reinvent the wheel. (Disclaimer 1, it's not a bad thing to reexamine how we do things) (disclaimer 2, I like his posts generally)
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The funny thing is, though, it tends to be people regurgitating what they heard works without trying IF it works. Like a long game of telephone.
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