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

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] DragonTypeWyvern 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Politics leads to stress, stress leads to anger, anger leads to people saying "KYS, fascists, or I'll do it for you."

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Kys?

[–] misophist@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Kiss yourself". Or maybe something similar, but more violent.

[–] stackPeek@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Kiss yourself

suspiciously plentiful amount of tweets by neil degrasse tyson about kissing yourself on mirror

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Krill Yesterday Software

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Kentucky Yeeted Salmon