So often I find myself writing out a long comment before going "you know what, never mind".

No no on the fediverse we need the activity. Get your hazmat suit on and get in here

B-but you don't understand! Somebody is wrong on the Internet!

Tangentially… I commented on a couple political posts on a popular corporate social media platform. The posts aligned with my political stance. Within 24 hours my feed was littered with batshit stupid right-wing lies and trolls.

It is far better to not comment. Reality might have a left leaning bias, but popular online social media has a right-wing algorithm.

think about the engagement though

Picture a middle school cafeteria. That's close to the representation of who is in the comment sections. I'm sure of it. Maybe there's a teacher or two, the janitor, the person serving lunch. The adults generally have their mind elsewhere. The majority of users are going to be kids.

I've learned I can't make any comment that is negative about AI or else the dbzer0 nutbags will appear.

I will seriously consider if it's worth getting swarmed by assholes with bad-faith arguments that all support each other's insane logic.