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[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

It's almost as if social media has only intensified tribalism by giving us two dimensional views of the people we interact with. Our in-group has a diverse set of reasonable ideas, whereas the outgroup is a brainwashed monolith of everything we hate.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The internet (even pre-social media) is an exercise in group polarization, recursively and repeatedly.

[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

100%

I know I've even taken more extreme stances outwardly than I actually believed because I didn't want to be outcast by my friend group.

Oddly enough when I became more comfortable to speak my mind in a non-threatening manor to those who trust me, I did get my close circle to show that they weren't as extreme as they presented themselves either.

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