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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Also don't forget that a considerable number of the users that would engage in a debate with you are either children or bots.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The internet would be a different place if you always got to see a picture of who you're arguing with (people would immediately see that I can't be wrong)

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

Yeah it would be a great place for rightoids to hunt queers and attack them on optics

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Or trolls. I swear the internet as a whole forgot that the best way to deal with all of the above (AND idiots!) is to stop engaging.

I blame modern social media. People are too well trained to feed the algo, even here on the fediverse.