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Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth::Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    It’s amazing how much casually nicer lemmy and the greater fediverse is. You still see some bad habits leaking over from the rest of the web, but then people actually apologizing! and asking others to be nice! And it actually works!

    Well outside of some thorny political issues, but that’s just human nature.

    • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Fewer people, more tightly connected communities… In old Reddit there was a point over which the sub was getting mainstream and then you would get gallowboob and other assorted jerks ruining everything

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      That’s not been my experience. I keep getting baited by ml power users and then banned for daring to question their orthodoxy. It seems intentional.