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short form social media is an industrial farm of mental illness. it surrounds you with histrionics with all the time possible to spare, minimal commitment and i
by hotdogscout 3y ago
short form social media is an industrial farm of mental illness. it surrounds you with histrionics with all the time possible to spare, minimal commitment and inundates your monkey-brained need for peer approval with their low standards.
leaving leftist online spaces was the decision that had the most positive impact on my life. any community based around a struggle will have a hard time not being a pit of vindictive envy regardless of ideology.
- astrange 3y agoI don't think leftists are really that associated with short-form writing, haven't you seen the jokes about "leftist memes"?[0] They were on Twitter because they left Tumblr, which was long-form. [0] the joke is they have pages of text on them
- hotdogscout 3y agoTumblr leftism was much more contained though, it was hard to peer pressure targets and journalists outside the scene looking for easy stories had no ability to reproduce the gossip and slander. Twitter's mechanics are a shouting competition, with 10% of users making up 90% of tweets, while giving users tremendous power over public figure's profiles. It turned leftist discourse into a more violent /r9k/ with a minority skin and corporate backing. I don't think the move towards a short-form platform had a non-trivial influence in this shift.
- dahwolf 3y agoFully agree. I'm center-left myself in the European political spectrum and cannot stand the leftist vibe, so gloomy, self-congratulating, fake.