If you go on Reddit’s popular section, you will see an endless stream of outrage culture from the left-wing media. But I want you to consider something. Pretend for a moment that it was all an elaborate hoax. Pretend for a moment that in some dark, smoky room, Mark Zuckerberg and all the other tech big wigs are all secretly plotting to divide us and make us all angry.

But then, consider the following regarding the Fediverse. The entire All section is absolutely filled with nothing but the exact same outrage culture. There’s no evil tech overlords pulling the strings. It’s all just us continuing to repost and amplify the same outrageous crap?

Is it possible the algorithm itself is not the problem, but rather us? Why is it everyone enjoys being miserable and angry all the time? The fediverse is proof that we don’t need an algorithm to control us in our habits.