> As far as I can tell, the people who continue engaging with the ragebait slop don't actually care if it's true or not. I've found generic/mass-appeal reddit/

> As far as I can tell, the people who continue engaging with the ragebait slop don't actually care if it's true or not. I've found generic/mass-appeal reddit/twitter/whatever to be mostly social hygiene where people get together to link up with their tribe. If there is interaction between tribes, it mostly follows the same patterns (but it's rare, because power accumulates on one side and you get more ideologically aligned groups). The ideal version would be one where members of other tribes are around, but they quickly get shouted down and then either join the local tribe or leave defeated, admitting they were wrong. Whether something really happened (in some particular way) doesn't matter if discussing reality is not the point.