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  • Jack William Belljackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
    Jun 25, 2026, 5:57 PM

    And one of my principles is this: You cannot fix people. (Sometimes they can fix themselves, but most often they go to their graves still broken.)

    By choosing to be popular you are choosing to be a target of assholes. And, at least for Social Media, popularity *is a choice*!

    I say this because you can do things to stop it. You can use a nym and not reveal your true identity. On some platforms you can lock your follows at a reasonable number. You can simply not participate.

    [contd]

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  • Jack William Belljackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
    Jun 25, 2026, 6:03 PM

    Now, if you go up thread on the conversation linked at the top of this thread, you will find someone calling popular accounts 'victims' of the assholes. And I guess that is a valid way of looking at it. Except, short of somehow eliminating them from the human herd, these kinds of assholes are going to be there and are going to seek out the popular to 'victimize' no matter what you do.

    Is it 'blaming the victim' when they deliberately walk onto a busy highway? Or is blame fungible?

    [contd]

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  • Jack William Belljackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
    Jun 25, 2026, 6:05 PM

    So I'm here to argue the underlying problem is popularity. And here's where you find out this long thread is actually the kind of shitpost someone makes when they are trying to make an unpopular point:

    Maybe the problem is allowing people to become popular in the first place?

    [fin]

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