Me too. Personally I’ve had experiences where I’ll say “I filtered x instances because I don’t like them” and had people complain that I’m creating an echo chamber (for just myself I guess?). I wanted to poke fun at those people by saying Lemmy is already a tech literate echo chamber.
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aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is true but I ultimately don’t care.
Is there any social media site that isn’t an echo chamber? They’re designed this way on purpose in most cases.
There are enough forums catering to idiots. I appreciate the better moderation, tech savviness, and lack of tolerance for right wing BS on Lemmy.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Reachtea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lemmy users actively like echo chambers
Oh my God lmao
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn’t an echo chamber.
Facebook - Echo chamber, actively managed to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads
Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads
Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a “locals only” theme
LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod ferociously to everything the CEO says in the “all-hands” meeting
Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties
YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you’ll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)
Twitter (I’ll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including “MechaHitler”
Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up
Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it’s decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)
Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber
Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes
Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber
Shall I go on?
I have an RSS reader too. People like yourself act like because you’re tolerant of some junk food in your diet that that is all you eat.
topherclay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Oh my God lmao”