Twitter also breeds extremist - unlike Facebook the entire reward system on that site encourages out-extreming each other
I'd argue that Reddit also does the same thing. On Reddit, you can always find a community that agrees with your radical thinking. Reddit also has a problem with groupthink where the upvoting system heavily rewards popular opinion, even if it's false.
In this day and age, I find that not participating in social networks makes me a happier and less radical person. If I do partake in them, I limit myself to generally harmless hobby and work-related communities.
Even the news is based on getting anger clicks so it's hard to escape
The most prominent example is supporters of Donald Trump being forced off-site, but any kind of conservative or right-leaning community or politically incorrect community is being forced out.
I was there for about 10 years, and a few months ago my account got temp-banned because I said a naughty word. So I deleted my account and left the place for good. Some people on the extreme right have congregated elsewhere, but I'm not sure where right-leaning centrists are supposed to go.
Do you have any concrete examples of this? I won't pretend I'm up to speed on the subject but this just strikes me as incredibly heavily exaggerated.
/r/SargonOfAkkad is quarantined, meaning it's circling the drain before being banned.
Actually just browsing /r/reclassified sorted by top posts brings up a lot of examples. It's not all political of course, there are literal CP subs getting axed like /r/AgePlayPenpals, but banned subreddits are overwhelmingly either conservative, anti-feminist or edgy or equivalent.
Angela Merkel is a right-leaning centrist where I'm from. I'll leave it at that.
> not sure where right-leaning centrists are supposed to go
Given that's basically Biden's Democrat party, I don't think they're an endangered species just yet.
(There is also a disinformation problem on the left, but nowhere near as prevalent in the mainstream politics and news organisations, and a non-aligned smattering of nonsense such as the anti-5G campaign)
In closing, before anyone puts me in a category I don't belong: I'm not american, and I don't follow or care particularly about american politics.
Then why the f are you commenting on it? Don't comment on things you don't know about, especially the politics of a country not your own.
What was the word?
Man was I taken aback every single time. The initial tweets referred to me were quite interesting nuggets. But once I started scrolling some distance down I was immediately in a strange land of turf wars between different groups of tin foil hat people. And people promoting their fake COVID views all over.
From that it was just a short step to adding twitter to my blocked hosts file.
But as soon as you scroll down, the comments make you want to throw up.