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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] sbv@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study.

Twitter got a lot better when I unfollowed the peeps whose tweets I hated. But it also got boring, so I stopped using it (this was loooong before Trump, Elon, etc).

There's probably a lesson there.

[โ€“] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

so we defederate from .ml and lemmy could be saved?

fascinating

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