On Reddit it became extremely popular to hate on Facebook by 2015, but very few would discuss why or how. It isn't as if Reddit was advertising-free and didn't have documented cases of grass-roots exploitation. The code and management of Reddit put a huge amount of time into trying to prevent vote manipulation (and make it a trade secret) - where none of that seems to be going on with ActivePub platforms. People notice where Reddit fails, but they don't seem to notice how hard the problem really is to solve when nobody cares about real identity.
Facebook people mostly used real names, real houses, real photos with their family. Reddit seems to really hate that for the mainstream audience, and that carries over to Lemmy in 2023.
People don't use fake identities to share secrets about companies by name, instead more often than not fake identities are used to pump garbage and copy old content and present it as new.
It's funny how when people talk about Facebook as bad, they never seem to mention the real identity aspects of many people on it who joined 12 or more years ago. And there is something kind of sick about a society where real identity and real problems have to be hidden to be accepted online. The thugs have kind of won.
YouTube you often know who the person is because so much is presented in the images and audio. Some of the small-time youtubers with only 700 views talking about technical topics are really the kind of sincere and earnest thing that have largely been abandoned.
Surfing memes of billionaires - be it Trump memes from his antics or Hollywood film memes or video games making billions of $ - and their memes... is dangerous. Trump rode on "high energy" and mocks scientific thinking. The crazy shark-frenzy trend-chasing of memes has become the cornerstone of Lemmy.
lemmy has had wave after wave of hate. Hate towards Reddit bring bitter and hate-filled emotions as the central core of Lemmy for many months. And hating on Elon Musk. And hating on this or that. It really has been an emotional Mob Mentality of hating things.
That's the kind of emotion Cambridge Analytica was spelling out to those who wanted to 'lead the masses', aka get votes - was packaging in 2013. Now it's all just accepted, the constant hate as a 'fun topic'. Bitching all the time.