Had the same experience on Blue sky. I was never into Twitter, so I checked out Bsky to see if that was better. Nah. Just different political circle jerking.
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sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study.
Twitter got a lot better when I unfollowed the peeps whose tweets I hated. But it also got boring, so I stopped using it (this was loooong before Trump, Elon, etc).
There’s probably a lesson there.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 month ago
jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 month ago
so we defederate from .ml and lemmy could be saved?
fascinating
AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 1 month ago
It’s definitely not the same, but I am somewhat reminded of Robert Sapolski’s Baboon stress study
Some key paragraphs:
Prox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So we just need something to 86 the worst of us?
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 1 month ago
8647 at least