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Obviously this is true and it sucks, but I don't really view it as a man vs woman issue. I think it's a social media issue where these companies purposefully push outrage content to drive up engagement. It's an unethical practice with little to no legislation protecting users exposed to it.

Many of these platforms don't even have a way to opt out, forcing users to view it via "suggestions" in their main feed.

Abhorrent to hear such a young person having to deal with this. It gets easier as you grow older, but it never stops being a vile state of things. Nobody should have to grow 'thick skin' to just participate, as wonderful aspects of their personality can die with it.

The gut reaction is to point to the easy and straightforward option, to just leave. But in the end this doesn't solve anything. This is exactly how many safe spaces die, on top of it blaming victims. Once abusers are let in and tolerated, the victims will start leaving if they can. And eventually, the space is no longer that of the victims, but that of the abusers. This happens with nazis at a bar, smokers at restaurants, assholes on the road, unruly people in the train. It leads to a society where everyone nice just sits at home because that's ultimately the last safe place left.

The hard truth is that the group that doesn't take a stand and accepts in the abusers, is the only place we can look at for a solution. But there's no easy way to get to them often. If they let it get this far, it's essentially pointless. (The big social media platforms for sure). I think the only real alternative is to build alternative safe places. Reach out to friends and other victims. Let them know there is another place where they can actually feel safe. But it will be hard and grueling. At first it might seem like you are alone, that nobody shares your grievances. But it takes time. Years even. You might get assholes trying to get in anyways, that have to be harshly rejected to keep the spirit alive. You might get sabotaged from outside. It's tough - but as far as solutions go, it's a real one.

I consider Lemmy one of these places. And I think it's very important for anyone to realize they're in a community built on those grounds. It must always be protected with full force. From the smallest friend group, to the biggest of governments. Even when that's hard to do.

If you’re anything like my parents, you probably wouldn’t even understand most of the content that floods my social media

Aren't her parents like 35 or 40? She thinks people who are 40 don't understand social media? LMAO

It baffles me to whine about the disgusting shit on short form video pop app for kids and then say this is what I use for Social media. How about not doing that? did you try to not do that? perhaps your problem is the doing of that and the Solution is to not do that?

This community should be renamed to anything goes community.

Moderation team never actually moderate.

This is an opinion peace. Why is it posted here?

This isn't social media, it's social acid, dissolving and corroding everything.

Getting glad I never tried out Instagram. I can see where these 'ban social media' people are coming from if these are the platforms they're looking at, I've never seen anything nearly as bad on the platforms I use (and a most of the bad stuff I see is heavily downvoted and argued against anyways). I guess if I went to r/conservative or started watching Asmongold videos on Youtube or something I would probably see some pretty terrible stuff, but Reddit and Youtube both keep me pretty separated from their bad sides.

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As a father of two girls this makes me sad. However, I am a little bid sad to see so many, treading social media as this is the real life view to a lot of young people. Of cause there is plenty of people that gets sucked in, and their view of the world becomes whatever algorithm they follow online. But to most people this is just "shock effect content" not something they would ever follow. I certainly hope, that in your school, most people actually have a since of human left, and are still nice to eachother. As nice as teenagers can be ofc. That the people who actually has this kind of view of other people (especially girls) are the ones who get left out. What I am trying to say is, that I hope young people today leaves all the shit online, ONLINE, and gathers around the good friends IRL. Those are what matters most. Turn off social media ffs. It is meant to fucking poisen your brains. I did. And it feels phenominal. What real value does the swiping really give you, if all it does, is showing how bad you should feel, by being born a Woman? What do you and your friends use social media for today?

When I was teenager, we used social media to socialize online back in the day. Stayed in contact after school hours. Thats all it did for us. Today, I feel like it's sole purpose has become intertainment/pure distraction rather than connectivity to real human beings. It's all about scrolling and leaving bred crums to the big tech, that can be used to fill your "feed" with even more crap to keep your distracted every waking hour. It is the dog chasing it's tail, and what you see won't stop there.please tell me if I am wrong. But this is how I've seen social media develope over the past 2 decades of my life. It went from being the cool place, like a social place to interact with the people you like/love to a swipehell with no valuable interactions what so ever.

Misogyny sells, apparently. Sex also sells. That is precisely why we allow everyone on the Internet and social media to post pornography. Oh, wait: we don't. If there is as much as half a nipple on display, takedowns start buzzing about, bans come down faster than lightning bolts, and you are out of an account faster than you can say Freedom of Spee...

If you can appease Moms for Jesus, you can create an environment where misogyny is not allowed. In general, we allow these algorithms to do all sorts of evil in the name of engagement, and maybe it's time to put a stop to it. Maybe, for a change, we make the corporations liable for all consequences of their algorithmic posting. They'd pay more attention to what they push.