I think in addition to that, he has learned that his behaviour is rewarded with unprecedented social and media exposure and share of the social consciousness, and when all everyone talks about is Trump, it in some way legitimizes whatever he says by nature of choking out everything else. This has basically only escalated based on everything he has done so far in his second term. Even if whatever he said is dumb and doesn't work or he is wrong, it doesn't matter because that story is buried under the stories covering the 10 other outrageous things he has said since. Whenever he says something absurd, he is inviting everyone to join him in his reality, and everyone hops in.

I think institutional trust is too low, the media cycle moves too fast and people are too divided for facts to matter much in this environment.

It happened to me cause it was hearing itself through my external speakers, I disabled them and it worked fine afterwards.

This is actually a pretty cool accidental mirror test.

When the project is initially made, the rules of supply are determined, in the case of many, a large portion of the supply is given to the creator for free, and they can use their notoriety to attract attention to the project, which they then offload to other people. From there, for the retail "investors", they are basically playing a game of hot potato, where people are balancing maximizing profits of price increases from supply being sold to increasingly greater fools, with the risk of holding it when it blows up and dumps and losing it all.

You basically have to moderate it yourself if you ever want to browse /all or whatever the front page is. You have to filter a bunch of different criteria, basically anything that looks like its meant to farm engagement or outrage.

Anything remotely political

any of the meme reposting subreddits

any aita related subreddit

any subreddit that limits replies to subreddit members aka circlejerk and hivemind subs

any user with excessive karma/year that isn't making OC like a comic/ artist or something

any new user that posts anything related to the things above

that cuts out at least 50% of what you see on the front page, still not great but probably better than any other alternative for what you are looking for.