the dilemma of seeing a post you disagree with, and wanting to point out what you consider harmful about the message

If you say something in comments or reblogs, you get a fight. And the post gets more attention than it should get.

If you post on your own blog about it, or vaguepost, or say nothing at all– then all the people sharing that original post uncritically may never get exposed to ANY other viewpoints about its message. And they go on thinking everyone in the world agrees with it– or that whoever disagrees is a weird stranger they’ll never have to meet.

This is how Internet communities break up into bubbles, which then radicalize into stuff ranging from conspiracy theory cults, to puriteens, to incels

But if you try to think “how do we stop it,” all that comes to mind is “lots of people need to be ready to argue with strangers on the internet”…. and i kinda feel like that is also part of what contributes to the problem?