A pretty good reminder not to take important advice from reddit

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    I guess this is reflected in the real world how we are, especially politically

    We don’t talk to those that don’t agree, we spend hours in echo chamber type forums, and left or right, we get more extreme in our opinions, we believe dumb shit.

    This hit the right side of things especially hard, I guess because it’s susceptible to this by design, focusing on the loners, the angry, the disenfranchised. Make them listen even less, make them even more extreme and you get terrorists.

    • rirus@feddit.org
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      17 hours ago

      Also extreme stuff is rewarded in social media because it brings interactions.