People aren’t very smart, have trouble understanding new things and fear change - of course they express negative options.

Most Americans would have said the sama about electricity, computers, the internet, mobile phones…

‘I sit online all day pretending to be a teen girl and getting into dirty chats with strangers, it’s OK though because I’m doing it to stop the creeps…’

Oh no, they didn’t protect a rich corporations profits! How cruel!!!

Yeah this is basically the older generation vs video games, the one before that against movies, etc, etc…

As people age they resent the world changing, they assume everything different is bad because it’s easier to accept than the thought of aging into irrelevance.

Lemmy is full of people knee-jerk hating anything new; social media, ai, and every new thing younger generations do. It’s dumb but people are often so.