There’s no way to put this sympathetically, but the most positive thing to reshape our increasingly cynical & toxic attitudes towards online communication in the past 25 years, has been the pandemic lockdown. Example:

This week I’ve written extensively about misguided attempts to mandate online accountability as a cure-all for abuse, and also regarding how hard it is to find positive stories being told about the network and about communication, because the Internet – being decentralised – has no advocates.

But there are charming, positive stories about people leveraging social media to help themselves out of a hole, and I think this is a nice one, courtesy of the BBC.

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