@yon@sakurajima.moe That is the draw of history. Humans are not much different over the last ten thousand years. I could be dropped as a baby in ancient Rome, and no one would know me as anything other than roman once/if I made it to adulthood. You can learn a lot about humans by just looking at what they did previously.There is just a strange exceptionalism that exists around social media; People think it's a distinctly modern phenomena and disorder. But the roots of all that exist in our psyche and history. People with the means wrote obsessively to their parents complaints, and those who didn't have the means complained bitterly. People even had public boards that they'd attach public replies to. It was for many also a form of entertainment. I think it gets lost how much people, in the absence of mass forms of cheap entertainment, just talked and thought about what they heard. With only some exaggeration, even a reclusive hermit in pre-modern times would probably be considered a shameless gossip today.
