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Except it's not their fault. At least, not entirely. Every single fucking centralized social platform tweaks its content algorithm to drive engagement, and they found that the best way was to piss you off. They shove it in your face until you can't help but say something to fight the unending flow of utter bullshit.
Block them or move to another platform. I block everyone on Facebook who feels the need to make negative comments, regardless of whether I expect to encounter them again. Really cleans up the place.
Sounds like a lack of emotional maturity.
More like an intense study of how best to exploit human nature for financial gain.
I was doing the thing you were talking about…
...being fed a manipulative stream of content to piss you off?
Yes!
Ultimately it becomes troll v troll until either trolls out leaving each troll believing they've out-trolled the troll.
Alot of these places are just a spot were bots and racists can argue with each other. If only it were a capsule that we could shoot into the sun.
Imagine that there's a paving slab that sticks out right outside of your house, often causing you to fall. If that's the 50th time you fall over due to this thing, you probably will curse at it, no matter how emotionally mature you are.
Now exchange falling over to being trolled.
B-B-But are you engaging, or are you trolling?
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....Yes?
Yeah, the landscape has changed a lot. People can also share on other platforms, sometimes live, showing their trolling. Poe's law is also a thing. I first got online in the BBS days and have been around basically every since. I quit mainstream SNS years ago, but it even finds its way here.
This happens on decentralized social media, too. Fedi dwellers are all so convinced that the trolls wouldn't have happened without intervention and man, is that not true.
Don't get me wrong, the corpos used that dynamic for profit, but they didn't invent it. Having been there before the algorithm, old forums, IRC and other protosocial spaces had very plump trolls, and so do federated, decentralized spaces when they reach critical mass.
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.
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.