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MeanwhileOnGrad
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I think this is a side effect of social media algorithms as a whole. It pushes people into more extreme views of content/ideoligies that they already have, potentially pushing them to a point they wouldn't have chosen.
The thing is you use to see rebuttals, but now you don't. I don't really know, but I remember a massive shift when Trump began raising in popularity Reddit communities started to become a lot more insular. You'd get autobanned from communities if you posted in a subreddit with the wrong political affiliation.
And then just last year I was on my local subreddit, one user was just being blatant racist towards whites, another user posted "What happened to colourblindness", I reported the first comment, the mods locked the second. So I asked what was up, and got told "colourblindness is white supremace rhetoric", and they saw nothing wrong with the anti-white comment.
I think it's not just the content that's being curated, but our userbases.