Soy Are Facebook and YouTube "soy?" In the way that Twitter and Reddit are "soy?"

[FrothySolutions]

I only really ever hear Twitter and Reddit called "soy." And it's true, they've kinda inherited the legacy that Tumblr used to have. But I wonder why it is I don't go on, say, YouTube, and get inundated with nothing but roses and rainbow flags and calls for widespread looting and arson. Like I do on Reddit or Twitter. On Twitter they're fact checking Trump's Tweets. On Facebook there's an unregulated market for political ads, no matter how mad it makes progressives. Why this difference? Why does Twitter feel like a bastion for progressive ideas, but Facebook doesn't?

I think it's because the Facebook Empire (Facebook, Instagram, everything else Facebook owns) has billions of users. And YouTube is pretty close, with over 1.5 billion monthly users as of September 2019. The userbase is too diverse.

The rise of social media

Social media sites are used by more than two-thirds of Internet users. How has social media grown over time?

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While Reddit and Twitter were, as of September 2019, only hovering around the 300 millions. That (relatively) small amount makes for a (relatively) niche and tight knit group. You've probably seen the Tweet about how most content on Twitter is controlled by just 10% of accounts or something?

 

[FinnCel]

Of course

 

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They're all run by the same people. Yes they are soy. And they are only getting more soy. Notice how less and less actual good content creators, subreddits etc there. They are being filtered out and soon it will be 100% soy.

 

[TheSecondComing]

Of course