> When deprived of an "other" to simultaneously attack and to claim to be victimized by, a lot of the conversations just fizzle out. Isn’t that what smoldesu i

> When deprived of an "other" to simultaneously attack and to claim to be victimized by, a lot of the conversations just fizzle out. Isn’t that what smoldesu is actually thinking would be the solution: Let people form islands. Facebook actively amplifies antagonistic posts by showing them to more people and for longer. A federated system would presumably not do this and would give users more direct control of who they associated with.