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It's funny, I've been thinking a lot about people's acknowledgement of faults or shortcomings and choosing to ignore them, whether it's because they agree, don't care, or think it doesn't matter. Or don't agree and there's no better alternative, or it's the least bad alternative. I dunno.
In the public internet spaces like Facebook, discord, the others, I've been seeing a lot of this happening recently with Linkin Park's new singer. Some are happy and ignorant, some know and don't care, some know and are saddened. There is a lot of vitrol between the people who know and are saddened and the people who don't know/don't care. This is just one example from this week, but it happens every week to every story. It can be, probably, literally applied to anything. People's level of information heavily biases them from their predisposed beliefs (as in, if they already have an opinion, chances are that the opinion will not change when presented with new information).
In our spaces I see it with Brave. I see it with Kagi. We all saw it with Unity en masse and something actually happened about that, but even so people are still using Unity today, albeit I would guess out of necessity, or now ignorance since time has passed (not saying ignorance here is a fault). Before then we saw it with Audacity. Can't forget Reddit, where a significant chunk of users are now participating here instead. And.. yet... Reddit still exists, nearly in full.
It's such a crazy phenomena with how opinions are formed from emotional judgements based on the level of information they have, and due to our current state of informational sharing there are microcosms of willful ignorance. And some aren't ignorant, it just doesn't matter to them.