Facebook is an accelerator of our toxic times, not its cause
Facebook has merely harnessed and amplified the networks already at work online. Blaming the symptom for the problem is no route to a solution.
toxic communities
Narcissism and toxic communities
Dispatches from the dark places of community management, where comics pros groom young women, and My Little Pony communities get infested with Nazis…
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The most toxic community on the internet is homeless
8chan, home of mass shooters, QAnon and the cradle of GamerGate is finding it hard to get back online. And its founder it working to keep it that way.
community management
Reddit and the problems of scale in large communities
Is there an optimum size for online communities? This analysis of Reddit suggests that there is.
toxic communities
How people silence each other on social networks
The interplay between harassment and silencing is one of networks ways that users effectively networks each other on social networks.