it's a popular sentiment on bear blog that the wider world of social media is... bad; that engagement-maximizing algorithms and the posts they inspire people to make are addicting, enraging, misleading, and dividing us. sentiment can only go so far so I was glad to read The Case Against Social Media is Stronger Than You Think (via Platformer) recently, which ties together a lot of sources and research to make the case: posts with negative emotions spread further, disproportionately many come ...
