[mordae]

In my country, they have recently started with jews-in-nazi-Germany fearmongering. It's incredible, how fast does the Facebook schismogenesis work.

"We all need to get vaccinated!"

"But I am afraid!"

"You are unsafe for your community and should be ashamed!"

"I don't want to be stigmatized. Why are you pushing this so hard?"

"You are now required to prove that you have complied to live a normal life."

"This is literal fascism! You are violating my rights!"

The fact that we have a number of unmoderated forums such as Facebook and YouTube did not help. It's okay to have a hide park on 4chan, but having a syndicated stream of uncredentialed nobodies who have just happened to win an algorithmic loterry was not a very bright idea. Especially since some have noticed that inflammatory and/or fear-inducing content is interacted with more frequently.

[_Microft]

> a syndicated stream of uncredentialed nobodies who have just happened to win an algorithmic [lottery]

This might be the most appropriate description of social media that I ever got to read.

[mordae]

FB especially was not designed for this scale. Sadly it has also killed most of the small local moderated forums where people were hanging out, such as the local D&D site.

It has also successfully acquired user base that was never really acquainted with netiquette of such moderated spaces. Namely the generation of my parents.

[AndrewBissell]

"schismogenesis"

I'm just curious, did you happen to pick up that term from Jasun Horsley?