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I've been thinking about this phenomena a lot and this is what I came up with: a lot of people are still on social media for attention, when they post photos of their arts and crafts, long thoughtful texts — it gets little attention, but when they start bashing someone famous, they start getting hundreds of likes, follows from people whom they didn't know before.
Social networks encourage such behaviour — but it's not about algorithms, it's how people work — they like gossip.
That’s apparently deeply embedded in human nature, but if we learned not to defecate in the middle of the street I guess we can also learn to control our compulsive negative reactions 😉
@kravietz
Even here, where there are no algorithms, my posts that get the most attention is me besmearing Google — not those 5000 character longreads. I'm not the attention-seeking type so I'm fine, but a lot of people — they go for what's easier 🤷