• AHemlocksLie
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    4 hours ago

    The trolls definitely exist here, too, for sure. But my point was that centralized social media algorithmically pushes it on you. Facebook, for example, goes out of its way to find ragebait to show you, whereas here, the trolls have to post somewhere you’re intentionally subscribed.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      9 minutes ago

      No arugment there. I’m not questioning that corpos make the issue deliberately worse as an engagement engine. That’s a fact.

      But a lot of people jump from there to assuming those patterns will just vanish without algorithmic intervention, and that’s just not true, which can lead to a lot of disappointment when people move to other alternatives.