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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by Double_a_92 on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:05AM (#38515168)
The difference is that with your real-life social bubble you try to not embarrass yourself, so you only discuss your more moderate views with them. While on the internet if you support some extremistic view, you can just shout it out without much consequence.
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by bluescrn on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:00AM (#38515478)
Without much consequence?

Only if you hide behind the shield of anonymity. Which you can't really do in the real world.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by shiroiuma on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:37PM (#38525917)
The other problem is that ideas are contagious, so when a few wackos shout out their extremist views, other people start thinking this may be normal, and more and more of them become sympathetic to it. This is why so many Americans believe in crazy BS conspiracy theories like "adrenochrome" now; in the pre-internet days, this stuff couldn't go very far. This is why those family gatherings have gotten so bad: decades ago, very few people believed in "extremist" stuff, but because of social media and other internet media sources, many of those views have become somewhat normalized so that a large portion of the population believes them.
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