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There are a lot more lurkers on any forum than active members who comment. Everyone here has read a thousand more posts/comments than they've made. Getting lurkers to consider what you say is a very real thing, and people do change their political beliefs based on what they read online.
Agreed, and there's a social component too. The ability to form communities around ideology and common ground is the biggest gift the Internet gave to leftist thought (and the ability to dismantle liberal thought in the open).
This was also why it was so important to capital to dismantle leftist spaces on Reddit like Chapo Trap House and imply an equivalence between it and fascism by simultaneously removing the Donald (which should have been purged long before).