One of the most upvoted active post on lemmy.world right now is this one:
https://lemmy.world/post/51264044
Why do you upvote this content? Is kuntuckygirl1 someone famous i should know about? This post doesn’t look like anything special, anyone could have wrote it so why reposting and upvoting content from x and from people we don’t know anything about?
There are hundreds similar examples
An eloquent description of everything I hate about social media (yes, including the fediverse).
Most people don’t actually want a discussion, they just want to be told they’re right.