Think about it: you try reasoning with them, then get tired and block their noise from your feed, but all that does is reduces the presence of the ‘readonable minority’, allowing them to spew their rethoric to a more receptive audience. Socmed sucks.
Ugh. This old argument again.
If you’ll remember, that’s how social media used to work. If you are old enough to remember OG Facebook, back when it required a
.eduemail address to sign up (and for a brief while after it was opened to the public), you only saw posts, and other people only saw your posts, if you both accepted friend requests. No randos were spewing nonsense in your feed; if Becky or Brandon started spewing conspiracy theories, you just un-friend them and they’re gone from your digital life.It was just a place for people you already know to connect online and maybe meet some friends-of-friends in the process. The feed (“wall” I think it was called?) was reverse chronological and nothing was boosted or demoted; likes only indicated you liked it.
That model seemed to work pretty damn well by not allowing toxic people, bad actors, conspiracy nuts (unless your friends were all conspiracy nuts), and dis-/misinformation to permeate every freaking interaction.