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   Sam (samuteki@ohay.ooo)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 13:08:44 JST Sam

   Big social media is great for making money and expanding the profile of celebrities, but it's otherwise millions of people in the same room screaming for attention and usually finding that the more extreme the things they scream about get, and the angrier their screams get, the more of a platform they can eke out for themselves.

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     Sam (samuteki@ohay.ooo)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 13:08:43 JST Sam

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     Moderators can help reduce the impact of trolls and grifters and provocateurs, but not if they are outnumbered and overwhelmed. This is why sites like Twitter and Reddit etc are always plagued by these problems despite having moderation teams: a site's user base can only get so big before the toxicity reproduces exponentially, radicalizing some into extremism and baiting anti-extremists into argumentative styles they otherwise would not have adopted. The social media site becomes the site of an actual culture war.

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     Sam (samuteki@ohay.ooo)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 13:09:00 JST Sam

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     Big social media thrives on anger. It thrives on shock and antagonism. Showing you posts that will make you upset means you will boost the site's advertising revenue, and making posts that upset you mean instigators of the culture war can build their audience and reach.

     Until they figure out how to make money some other way )perhaps through subscriptions), big social media will always play both sides in the culture war it helped to create, and it will continue to sell your peace and mental health to enrich themselves.