I'm starting to think Reddit is a cancer to society and probably related to all these extremist "socialism" movements and division in the world today. I say this strictly from someone who doesn't participate or really even browse Reddit, so I have nothing to gain.

You can find a reddit of like minded people no matter how left wing or right wing extreme their ideology is, and find people who think the same and reinforce your viewpoint or morph it into worse to the point where you actually believe what you're thinking is right. Because face it, each reddit is for finding like minded people. Then you comment your extremist opinion, and get voted up by the hivemind of similar thinkers, and these positive reinforcements give you false hubris and carry over into the real world and that it should be the mainstream view of the world. No one in that reddit is there to counter their bullshit propaganda with facts or common sense, because they'd either be banned or buried, and so you're only given a one sided look at things, full of literally fake news which sways your opinion even further out with more extreme one sided views, which is inline with the ever deteriorating hivemind that slowly becomes more and more extreme and out of touch with reality. Then when you bring it to the real world where you're an extreme minority, everyone thinks you're crazy but no one says anything because it's "crazy" shaming.

I think in a democratic society, it prospers from everyone being intelligent and educated and having well formed thought out opinions. But people aren't, and that spreads discourse through society by finding hive minded clicks, who in reality didn't have a network for reaching vasts amounts of people before the internet. So, if I was a Russian, I'd probably be spreading social discourse in democratic nations through Reddit and other social media. That's why the Russians/Chinese ban and control social media. We're fucked.

All you fuckers are gonna say it's not an unpopular opinion, that's common sense. Fuck you and your 87 pronouns. My post isn't about Reddit, I'm talking about all the issues and discourse in the world today is related to it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

So there's a term for it, but when is something going to be done before all the crazies in the world become school shooters?