> You're telling them that they aren't seeing and feeling the thing they are seeing and feeling. You're not arguing against their take, just denying their e

> You're telling them that they aren't seeing and feeling the thing they are seeing and feeling. You're not arguing against their take, just denying their experience. In psychology, a term for that is "minimisation" [1]. I commented on the power-play aspect of it here [2]. It seems so common in all forms of social media (and seems significantly less common in real-life to openly minimise another's experience [3]) that one suspects it's an immanent feature of electronic communication. That seems to mesh not just with diffusion of responsibility, but that every other person in the digital world appears as a single, isolated data point who could be gaslighted into thinking they were totally alone in holding their opinions. As an amplified tyranny of the majority it seems the go-to attack in tech circles, where minority users are openly threatened with the "inevitable" march of "ubiquitous" technologies and will be "left behind" for failing to fall into line. Until these mechanisms have widespread recognition and are named I don't think it's possible to build social media technologies absent of serious harms. [1] https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Minimisation_(psychology) https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Minimisation_(psychology) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006944 [3] Perhaps it's my privileged position to experience/witness it less.