I travel a lot, and talk to a lot of different people. I’ve noticed that while people certainly do have differing opinions, it’s not as extreme as what I see online. I’m starting to feel like all this hate and division is manufactured. Has anyone else noticed, that when you actually talk to real people things are far less divided than various media would have you believe?
Most people don’t care enough about politics to comment online. Those that do, generally have opinions.
Nothing is manufactured. Hanlon’s razor applies really hard here.
Nothing is manufactured.
If you can prove every lemmyuse is a genuine user and not a sock puppet account or an LLM with posting privileges you could make MILLIONS in tech.
But you can’t and that’s all bull.
It’s one of those unfalsifiable and unnecessarily complicated/malicious things, like other conspiracy theories.
In case you’re unfamiliar with Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be attributed to stupidity”
Edit: To be clear, I didn’t mean literally, exactly nothing. Some things are manufactured, like the reviews on my dentist’s office, but the general online discourse isn’t.
Lmao, my kind sir, dozens of fine Russian folks are here to make a living with such lame agitprop.
Don’t take their words to heart, they represent the heroine fueled fever-dreams of Kim jong un. Delusions of grandeur and nothing more.
Also, they’re TERRIFIED of the real world. They deny much.
puts on tinfoil hat I honestly think it’s because most of the hateful stuff you see online is posted by bots.
as someone who was among those early to point out the incoming dangers of bots manipulating discussion,
i’ve recently begun to think i’ve massively underestimated the extent and breadth of bot manipulation of public perception
@Thespiralsong @asklemmy look up “normal distribution” for details but.
The normal distribution of any opinion will naturally show that the largest number are BETWEEN extremes. As in, in the middle. So for the majority of people and the majority of issues people will find that half of their concerns are addressed by one party and the other half by the other party.
The most extreme views are just yelled the loudest.
