• carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Totally disagree. Cities are wildly diverse, social media is grouped into echo chambers of extremely vocal minorities.

    • presoak@lazysoci.al
      3 months

      Hmm. Ok. My experience with cities is only soso.

      I was thinking of the closeness. Memes travel fast in that environment. So there are strong emergent effects and strong subcultures. When I meet city people I see these strong group opinions and whatever the political bandwagon of the hour, they’re on it.

      Whereas here in the sticks we’re all a bunch of slackers, relatively speaking.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Having lived in both, I think there’s one important parallel between social media and rural culture: in both, you hear about the rest of humanity second-hand, through the filters of algorithms, news, and limited acquaintances; while in a major city you meet people from all over the world face to face.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Is this one of those things where people who have never seen a living vow before romanticize rural life?

    • presoak@lazysoci.al
      3 months

      I live amongst cows. And goats. There are also sticks. Actually.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Well I’m not going to keep making guesses in the hopes that same day you’ll elaborate on what you meant.

        Have fun with your sticks I guess

        • presoak@lazysoci.al
          3 months

          Are you familiar with the term, “living in the sticks”?

          (Jesus Christ you people are sooo defensive.)

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    3 months

    I mean, they were pretty intertwined early on. Rural areas didn’t always have internet access like cities did. Which never made sense to me. In a city, you’re already right there near each other. The people out in the country are the ones who need to reach out to meet more people!

    • presoak@lazysoci.al
      3 months

      Ya, it’s the nearness of everybody. And the emergent phenomena of that.

      Also, in a city, are you surrounded by and in contact with friends? Strangers? 50-50? I think that matters.