What's your internet identity intersectionality? I have joins/subscriptions to everything from actual comrade communists to literal fucking national socialists. I follow race realists and blank slate cultists. I even keep "the root" on my youtube, but damn...their content really does suck. I follow a Sunday School teacher named Bruce Gore, and a philosophy teacher named Gregory Sadler.
How screwed up are your adventures?
Not. Because I am unwilling to feed my brain and soul with the vast amount of garbage that is out there. GIGO. I am aware of it, like the stink of a dump as you drive by it, but am happy to continue to drive by....with the windows up (so that I can see!).
How do you sort your exposure paths?
The internet is wonderful if you know how to use it. It's like a free candy store for intellectual content. You can watch lectures from the most prestigious universities in the world and read research papers without leaving your chair.
As for the rest it's free entertainment. There are lots of people making great history videos, science videos, political comedy, animal stories, the list is endless. I actually like the amateur quality better than slick documentaries produced for the masses.
@govols I hate to put it this way: a highly defined sense of smell - shit stinks. Usually, a single comment is sufficient to gather the foundation of a position, and it's objection or support can define the community. I usually give it a couple to see if it was a 'one-off' or a trend.
My blog reading (42 right now) tends to give me a pretty good exposure to everything out there. Blogs cover politics, economics, science and publishing (I am a voracious reader - science fiction, science, and YA trans-fiction)
The blogs often refer to other sites and communities and I use them as a first filter - just because they might oppose the content is not a reason for me to avoid it. I know the blog authors and their biases so I can evaluate their commentary in light of those biases and my approach to them.
Akin to someone that always reviews movies and my take on the same movies gives me a foundation to take future reviews more objectively, or at least subjectively according to my tastes.