Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago?

• cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I find this to be incredibly interesting. It's like 2016 saw online polarization, but it happened on the same platforms. Today, there's a polarizations of platforms - we exist in different realities online.

  I wonder if this split would have happened anyway, or if it was motivated by American politics. And I wonder what the consequences are.

  It seems like a pretty fundamental development in how our information channels work, and I haven't seen it been discussed much by commentators.

  Maybe my question cannot be answered because 'online' today just means something completely different than it did in 2016.

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