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Is there a significant difference between the manipulation activity on real-identity social media and pseudonymous media? FB and Twitter are places where the r
by motohagiography 6y ago
Is there a significant difference between the manipulation activity on real-identity social media and pseudonymous media?
FB and Twitter are places where the real participants mostly use their real identities, whereas places like Reddit and HN are just politely pseudonymous. I wonder if the collateral of real identities means a greater or lesser degree of manipulation.I don't use those other sites because I'm less interested in connecting online with people who use their real names, as it reduces to a personal brand performance divorced from ideas and truth.
Whether we're engaged in discourse or politics seems linked to whether we're using "real" or abstracted identities. While I think people who can't abstract their ideas from their identities are the ones who get manipulated, consuming pseudonymously produced junk could have a similar but different impact.