A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic – even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      Yes I’ve gone around this little carousel many times with people trying to justify it for themselves. You don’t need to justify anything to me. I’m not your dad.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Like not paying for a haircut if the stylist didn’t have any customer at that time anyway. It’s a victimless crime!

      (Btw I have a large Plex server. So yeah, I’m a hypocrite.)

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That took labor. Copying bits doesn’t take labor. We don’t have people working in a bit mine.