Comment on The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
Carighan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The part about the filter bubble being the opposite way around is interesting. But it does intuitively make sense, because we do build our RL-society-circles as a filter bubble, so the online one stresses us because it is not that.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I kind of get what they are coming from, but I don’t fully agree with their take of being more exposed to other views on the internet. At least not as a general rule.
There are loads of people who (understandably) will block any and all opposing views from their feeds, making the remaining stuff only things they agree with
redballooon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And even if they don’t do that they’ll join only communities where the bias is already there.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yeah there were the same problems with small scale social experiences forever. just look at the concept of small, or remote, towns being hostile to outsiders, being havens for fringe ideas/identities to take over, places that don’t allow certain people after sundown.