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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)

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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.

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months 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.zip 3 points 11 months ago

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

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