Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?

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• orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a terrible headline. All of us? No. Next.

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• Flemmy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meet Anon.

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. Next question, you SOB!

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• PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, fuck off, how very dare you suggest such a thing you horrid bastard you, just you wait, I’m going to punch you in the elbow and knock over your second-favourite house plant for insinuating such lies

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  • mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey. You don’t talkt to op like this you fucking degenerate piece of shit, we’re all being nice to each other!

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    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve blocked both of you idiots

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Try pitchhforks

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yes and i don’t think it’s limited to politics either.

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve always been a terse asshole.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your mother was a hamster. >:(

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    • mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At least my father doesn’t smell like elderberries

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    • Gnugit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No you

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• anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Why are online discussions about politics more hostile than offline discussions?
  A popular answer argues that human psychology is tailored for face-to-face interaction and people’s behavior therefore changes for the worse in impersonal online discussions…
  Across eight studies, leveraging cross-national surveys and behavioral experiments (total N = 8,434), we test the mismatch hypothesis but only find evidence for limited selection effects.
  Instead, hostile political discussions are the result of status-driven individuals who are drawn to politics and are equally hostile both online and offline.
  Finally, we offer initial evidence that online discussions feel more hostile, in part, because the behavior of such individuals is more visible online than offline.”

  This fits with our understanding of personality disorders, which is that they are a small percentage of our society—around 10.5 percent, according to the recent DSM-5-TR.3

  I try to avoid all politics online because it’s all raging and it’s honestly depressing that 10.5% can dominate a space like that.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you probably won’t like the thought that an even smaller percentage of people who think they need to get ever richer and control ever more aspects of ever more people’s lives are basically ruining our offline world.

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    • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would prefer a star trek utopia, that’s for sure.

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