I tend to be opposed to heavy handed filtering of social media for fear of opinion manipulation, but whenever I dip my toe outside of my carefully curated bubble (say, with a search for comments on Ocasio-Cortez) I lose faith in human civility.
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I think nearly everyone (in varying degrees) has some combination of a need to share, for feedback or even, to merely have their existence acknowledged. Without locality, this will not scale for humans. Joined by the fact that the need to respond to negativity, seems in most,
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to be much stronger than to positivity, the kind of personality that thrives will accept any kind of attention. Others will simply give up. The resulting feedback cycle makes negativity fitter, spread better.
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