cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/27891382
My social media environment (mostly Lemmy for the last year, after I left Reddit) is very leftist. I’m finding myself floating more and more left because y’all have a point and there’s not many counter-arguments in this social media environment. I sometimes wonder if that’s how MAGA folks feel–floating more and more right because that’s what they’re surrounded by.
Of course, my floating is (naturally /s) based on reason and leftists making good memes/arguments.
Anyways, that’s this morning’s introspection.
Side showerthought: my convictions are based on memes. Anyone have nice, accessible resources for giving those convictions a more solid base? I’d love something like a graphic history of leftist thought (similar to Queer: A Graphic History). Something approachable but with citations. Thanks :)
I think about algorithms and how they can divide people. We don’t get the same search results. It’s all based on what that site thinks we’d like and sends us down a rabbit hole to keep us watching tapping and clicking.
Let’s say you’re learning how to grow a house plant. Look it up on youtube and in the recommendeds balcony flower box tutorials, so you watch that out of curiosity. Then how to plant a small garden and the best underrated garden tools. Suddenly every time you open youtube logged in it wants you to watch stuff about gravity fed irrigation systems for small scale homesteading crop production and you’re like “how did I get here?”
Now imagine the political topics. Rage bait and us vs them gets attention and attention makes money. Right gravitates to right and left gravitates to left getting more and more pissed at each other and not enough people asking “how did we get here?”