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> People are easily muted, unfollowed, and blocked. But also, social media creates perfect conditions for such things to become necessary. Some people are espe

• mattgreenrocks 6y ago
  Yeah. I wouldn't advocate to remove those features due to the sheer amount of toxicity present on social media. However, their existence reinforces the issues I brought up: it's too easy to cut people out because they said something slightly wrong, they reinforce filter bubbles, and they make it easy to see relationships formed via social media as easily replaced.
  • sascha_sl 6y ago
    There's usually a lot more nuance to the "slightly wrong" aspect. Sometimes it is something minor the person just isn't well-versed in. Then the response seems to be proportional to how big their audience is; the bigger the audience the larger the transgression, the "you should really know better". But then there's also little hints at some more deep-seated issues, things where I'd also find an excuse to leave as soon as possible when I met someone like this in real life. The most common thing I see there is someone considering a group less human because of some arbitrary reason (race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity), and I don't mean the constant unwilful ignorance fueling microaggressions (I am though one way or another affected by that, they're mostly annoying and rarely uncomfortable enough to end a conversation) but very clear disregard or even disgust for some demographic.