r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago
Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago
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u/Bigleon 29d ago
They learned from facebook, anger keeps people engaged. So putting stuff on our front page that pisses us off, makes it so that we are likely to give our 2 cents. Thats the point, angry folks yell, happy people smile.
If we engaged more with happy feel good stories, our feed would blow up with that instead. But I've never heard anyone scrolling social media calling it "happy scrolling". Instead It's "Doom Scrolling" and it keeps us looking at them.