Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

    • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I made a comment the other day saying Lemmy users are just as biased as average people.

      Someone said, “how is this article biased.”

      I am convinced half the user base that was here before Reddit doesn’t know they are stuck in a loop of reading and posting articles here that justify their mindset the same as anyone else.

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          10 months ago

          Lemmy caters particularly well to the doomer crowd, since it presents an alternative to corporate-owned social media. Doomers have a lot of overlap with leftists(or liberals or whatever), and this causes a feedback loop of depression and anxiety. Consider two people; the leftist and the doomer:

          -The leftist gets mad about something and posts a few articles

          -The doomer sees this and reposts it with a more fatalistic title

          -The leftist sees the new post and becomes more outraged, posting massive walls of enraged text in the comments

          -The doomer reads the first paragraph and begins wailing about how the world is ending

          -This anger spills over into other posts and generally sours the mood for everyone involved

          Because the doomer is incapable of viewing anything in a positive light and the leftist lives in a state of perpetual butthurt, they feed into one another and fill everybody’s feed with outrage and despair.

          Swap the leftist with alt-right and you have 4chan circa 2017. Let it fester for a few years and you have a machine for churning out political extremists.