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Yes, Lemmy is like reddit where it's a lot of young people with thoughts which are bigger than their lived experience. That's not a criticism, it's just a fairly standard part of growing up. Or it used to be. It's not clear if social media has stunted this, or I'm just too old and don't know that many young adults outside the Internet.
No, it's that social media has reduced a lot of older people to the same mindset.
I'm in my 40s and even IRL I've noticed a huge shift in people my own age, acting more and more like teenagers and having these absolutist arrogant stances on 'issues' of the day. It comes from the social media that convinces them they are a very smart morally perfect genius and anyone who disagrees with them is a stupid horrible bad person.
I'm old enough to remember going to college in the 2000s and having all sorts of discussions about things that didn't reduce everyone to being evil, and most people being on board with that. Yeah, there were crazy yahoos at my school... but the yahoos won the internet. because being a crazy gets you the most views/clout, being a moderate reasonable person gets you ignored.
The man is future, old now!