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I'm not accusing you of this, but I do find it sort of odd how the victim blaming in social media goes. "My default experience is openly hostile and promotes d
by dijit 3y ago
I'm not accusing you of this, but I do find it sort of odd how the victim blaming in social media goes.
"My default experience is openly hostile and promotes division"
"My experience is that if you tailor it then it's very valuable".
"OK, but the default experience was hostile and I don't have the means to coerce the good vibes experience"
"Skill issue".
It happens on every conversation about Twitter, less so regarding TikTok and co. But it's an interesting pattern I see all too often.
- consumer451 3y agoYeah, I am just a user trying to help someone navigate a new platform, which is still being developed and is probably not ideal. Troubleshooting does fit common patterns maybe?
- dijit 3y agoAs mentioned, I'm not accusing you of doing it. I think it's right to try to help people, I often mark things as "Not Interested" if it's divisive, but since we tend to have less control about emotional responses, we all have a sense that we have a duty to fairness and with the understanding that humans tend to want to correct bad information rather than letting it go uncorrected (that's why the best way to get an answer to your question is to post an incorrect answer rather than ask). -- combined, these issues mean you will likely interact in some way with the divisive content if it's delivered to you. Seeking to actively diminish it is difficult, it requires thought and intentional moves to ignore and flag content as uninteresting or to heavily curate your feeds. This, I feel, is why it's victim blaming; because the intent of the media platform by default is to engage and they do so by baiting emotional or corrective responses in the interest of fairness.