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thought-provoking piece via @shantmm on how social media rewards performance over virtue, fueling a "crisis of masculinity". the author posits that w/o physical presence, conflict loses its bonding potential and devolves into emotional posturing: gossip, exclusion, purity spirals (behavior more common to women vs men). online, men are incentivized to escalate for engagement rather than resolve for respect. traditional masculine virtues of restraint, honor, and accountability don’t go viral; instead, men perform identities instead of building character and learning how to connect w/ each other (and w/ women). he writes, "the capacity to cultivate virtues is part of what makes us human. online interactions disrupt those capacities." they *can* disrupt, but not always: @keccers.eth and i (both women) squabble online all the time, but she is my ride-or-die. i'd go to war with her. our online tension has made our bond stronger, not weaker. think this piece gives more credit to the algo than it deserves.

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Why I have a tough time swallowing the new manly man aesthetic among the SV set when at the end of the day they are all ….. like that online

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This piece is super interesting, though -- as I told @shantmm in a separate reply -- I found the author to be very self aggrandizing. Still, I question the gender framing. What best characterizes the men who it's describing, in my opinion, is not femininity but schoolyard insecurity. There's this assumption in the piece that feminine = weak that I don't really buy into. I think weak = weak.

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this was an interesting read. reminds me of something Trevor Noah mentioned in one of his podcasts. he talked about how the algorithm is designed to bring about conflict (or dialogue, at least). a controversial post is more likely to go viral than a simple "i had a great day today." it does make sense for the author to surmise that this incentivization (is this a real word) affects how we "behave" online.

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I genuinely try to be as nice to people online as I try to be in the real world. What's sad is that I know this limits my discoverability and upside in ever growing DepressiveHacks to anything worthwhile. I don't feel that attacking people, even if it helps me get noticed more, is a positive, even if algorithms reward that. Even civil debate, which I do enjoy with trusted parties, is becoming less and less common these days online and off.

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