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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Im not sure its so much learned helplessness as, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, I don't want to understand how it all works behind the scenes. I don't care how lemmy is like email, I don't care if mastodon can see me if I can't see them, I don't want to have to know the differences between what version/update my instance vs app is using, etc...I could learn all that, I just dont want to have too, but I probably qualify as part of the "normie masses".
Thanks for the link! I got on Reddit right before the switch to new reddit so I never really used old reddit. Im ~~gonna~~
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Edit: so the formatting took me like 6 tries, but I got there! Conquering Lemmy one * at a time!
"Learned helplessness" isn't meant as an insult, it's just a way to describe... well, this. The idea that the internet is too complicated and you'll never understand it so don't bother trying. This is not the fault of the "normie masses" but rather society not treating digital competence as a necessary skill. Society has many more complicated systems like law, finance, insurance and property that people can still navigate!