I don’t mean those who are paid to do so -their motivation is obvious. I mean people who are destructive out of their own motivation and represent untenable points of view. Are they really serious about this?What’s the point?
I mean, it can’t all be the propaganda machine. What would be the point of trying that with Lemmy, who is paid for it? With LLMs, I can still understand that it could be done very economically, but even here there are real people who do it. Why? How did they come up with that? What is the goal? What drives them to do it?
I don’t get that at all.
Dopamine
It’s the same place the “made my life worse to own the libs” energy comes from.
They have fucked up reward systems and are seeking the brain chemicals they get from thinking they have succeeded in winding someone up
“Don’t feed the trolls” is because that’s literally what they want. They don’t care about winning anything, the goal is to get you to reply