Nuance, undertones, rhetorical questions may as well as not exist for some of these good fellows. I must remind myself that even though someone (many someones) might lack in this department, that doesn’t mean they aren’t brighter than me in many other things.
I am curious though. How, if you are aware of this, do you watch spy, palace intrigue, double agent, psychological movies? Isn’t it detrimental to fully enjoy the acting and reading actors expressions and nuances? I guess you wouldn’t be aware that you are missing full experience?
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It’s not about me by the way, it is from the perspective of a spectator, a lurker and not about me receiving some kind of response.
Written communication between strangers is going to lead to a lot of missed subtlety. Without shared context it’s not always obvious when someone is joking, the Internet is full of crazies of every stripe, so even obviously extreme ideas are not definitely satire.
I’m not sure lemmy seems worse than anywhere else tbh, but it does have a larger international user base. No native English speakers, and people from different cultures, are going to lead to more breakdowns in nuance.