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by Tainnor 477 days ago
I agree that social media is one of the big issues, but I think the early versions of it - when you were just talking to your friends - were fine.

The problem started with the "engagement algorithms". Surprisingly, radical and controversial content is more engaging, so people who spend a lot of time on social media tend to be enraged all the time (at their perceived enemy).