Does social media encourage drama in a way that furry sites do not?

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Do you think the move to larger social media sites instead of smaller furry-specific sites and forums is responsible for the current intolerance and vitriol that exist in the furry community?

Those sites created more of a community feel and forced people with different views to interact in the shared interest of furry characters. Now, the sheer size of the fandom means that people are only associating with people the same viewpoints. Division increases and there's nothing to push people together.

Furthermore, large platforms like Twitter have very little moderation and what there is is usually automated. Forums and such usually have rules against naming and calling people out which can help keep drama to a minimum as moderators actively look at what is posted. Twitter doesn't care. If anything, it encourages drama as that's more likes.

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Added:	5 years, 8 months ago 27 Aug 2018 20:04 CEST

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GallowsGryph

5 years, 8 months ago

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Honestly, I think the larger sites are a part of the problem, but not in the way most people think of. I think the drama and vitriol have always been there, but larger social media sites like Twitter and Facebook help to boost the effects by making it easier to find like-minded people to boost that voice or those opinions. On smaller sites, it's much more difficult for such views to take off in a viral fashion like it does on social media.

People are more willing to act if they know others will be there to back up those actions, regardless of if the greater community agrees. So long as they have large enough numbers to drown out or bully other parts of the community into agreeing with them, they'll take that chance. It's how society has always been.