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>”He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions.” This seems like a good description for most of Reddit. I have a feeling tha
by BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
>”He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions.”
This seems like a good description for most of Reddit. I have a feeling that the platform’s karma system is geared towards incentivizing these kinds of posts and thought patterns.
- NiloCK 4y agoIt's both less and more specific than that. Subreddits are ideal (or at least best-yet) implementations echo chambers. A particular idiosyncratic groupthink emerges for each subreddit, and the platform then filters incoming communications according to it. Because it's gamified, people are actively competing to conform to the local cultures. And here we are, where some guy believes that rekindling a prior conversation with a friend or acquaintance is psychotic.