People are fine with nazis as long as it benefits them or they don’t have to change.
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atro_city@fedia.io 2 months ago
How are so many people still on Xitter?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Dude its terrible. I tell my friends they need to get off and theyre like " but why doh? Me like it. " Ugh.
simplejack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A chunk of people still use it to provide a counter narrative to the right wing propagandists. Kind of like when Buttigieg or Newsom go on Fox News.
atro_city@fedia.io 2 months ago
Do we though? It's on a platform owned by an autistic fascist, racist, and supremacist.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 months ago
God dammit, Sarah
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Especially when the entire experience can be recreated in any rudimentary AI chatbot. It’s not like there are any human users left on Twitter anyway.
the_q@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The same way people are still on heroin.
atro_city@fedia.io 2 months ago
Xitter is addictive?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. Dopamine is a helluva drug.
atro_city@fedia.io 2 months ago
Does being called a faggot and communist online really stimulate the dopamine release? I'd be a little worried if that's the case.
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. Social media addiction is comparable to those of illicit drugs, both in terms of actual symptoms, as well how alter dopamine networks in the brain.
This is just a recent review article that focuses on teens, but similar results hold more broadly as well if you search.
Social Media Algorithms and Teen Addiction: Neurophysiological Impact and Ethical Considerations - PMC - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11804976/