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

  • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Is this why people sometimes get triggered when I point out facts as they’re reminiscing nostalgically?

        • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          23 hours ago

          do you not interact with people or something? completely serious.

          99.9% of people want to feel their feelings and if you try to tell them they are wrong they will tell you to go fuck yourself.

          • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            22 hours ago

            I have autism, so I often miss subtext like that, especially online. I’ll add it to my list of compensations, thanks 😅

            “Don’t immediately correct wrong statements, they might actually be indirectly expressing a feeling or trying to connect socially”

            If only there was a reliable way to detect when something like this happens