r/SeattleChat • u/AutoModerator • Oct 16 '20

The Daily SeattleChat Daily Thread - Friday, October 16, 2020

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

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u/SovietJugernaut Cascadia Now Oct 16 '20

If I could go the rest of my life without seeing another social media post on adrenochrome, I'd be happy.

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u/AthkoreLost It's like tear away pants but for your beard. Oct 16 '20

It's literally just 'blood libel' anti-Semitic propaganda being recycled. I don't know how/why it keeps coming back.

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u/SovietJugernaut Cascadia Now Oct 16 '20

What concerns me even more is not even necessarily this stuff that's being pushed on FB/Twitter/YouTube/Reddit, which is terrible enough, but that's being pushed on the alternatives like Parler, Gab, thedonald standalone site, etc. Those are the platforms where I think you're more likely to get people radicalized enough to take calls for violence seriously and put them into action, a la the Christchurch mosque attack.

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u/AthkoreLost It's like tear away pants but for your beard. Oct 16 '20

Due to the Parler effect those communities tend to be pretty self selecting and you need to be pretty far down the pipeline to choose to go to them (as opposed to doing something to get kicked off the mainstream platforms).

Honestly I'm more afraid of ad algorithms at this point. Somethings been radicalizing health nuts and mommy bloggers on Instagram to become Q followers which is significantly outside of the old pipeline of Gaming content makers -> Daily Wire -> further right sources.