RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116358342154325909
@artemis "[...] if you don't like it when people are picky about who they associate with & how [...]"
This is 100% on the money for me.
I feel like some of the vocal folks about #echochamber miss the fact that not everybody might like their social network as a mall of some loud prophets, but rather as bazaars or pubs - fine community garnerings come in many forms, after all.
There is no "Mastodon", only a loose network of federating servers. So "Mastodon" cannot "bring in" more of this, that, or the other. Nor can "Mastodon" prevent people spinning up their own servers and trying to federate with others.
And lastly, "Mastodon" cannot make individual users look at anything they don't want to look at – there are no pushy algorithms here.
Seems to me that some people who ought to know this need instructing.
It seems that echo chamber is the key phrase of the day. Here's my take
Personally, I left Twitter because it was full of bullying and celebrity/influencer worship. I didn't fit in, and felt very uncomfortable.
I left Facebook when my friends and families posts started disappearing and an algorithm started feeding me things I should have interest in.
I haven't used any other social media, except the Fediverse where I have been accepted and feel comfortable, even though my introverted nature sometimes tells me to stop interacting and go back to lurking like on Twitter.
As social media goes, I have found a happy place. I follow what I want, block what I don't, and am really happy with the moderation of aus.social admins. Is it an echo chamber? To be honest, I don't care. I'm not going to the pub with a bunch of people I don't like the opinion of, and that's how I think of the Fediverse, a social environment, rather than a soapbox.
Anyway, I'll go back to talking about chess, and posting photos of Tasmania and cats. And thanks to all of you who happily tolerate me 🙂
#Fediverse #Mastodon #EchoChamber @aussocialadmin #Socialmedia
ECHO CHAMBER!
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Not with all the soft furnishings that handicraft people keep on posting.
Dialoguing with Trump Detractors
Almost as pointless as dialoguing with Trump supporters:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=32&id=279
If I assume that the echo chamber wasn’t some kind of accidental byproduct, but rather a deliberate cultural form, a design...
Is AI then simply the next stage in the evolution of echo chamber?
A fully individualized stage.
AI - a solitary echo chamber.
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