Mastodawn

Mastodon: the perfect cesspool for those who think they’re rebels while just feeding a meaningless echo chamber. An illusion of freedom within a digital pen designed only to isolate, track, and neutralize any real analysis. The narrative continues, and the void remains.
#Mastodon #DigitalControl #EchoChamber #Fake

Research Network Digi-Oek.ch Jun 18

[en] Americans more willing to engage with opposing opinions than generally presumed

"Listening to someone who disagrees with you on a #controversial topic, but shares basic values, might not change your mind – but it could moderate an extreme position, reducing #polarization …"

Prof. Michèle #Belot: "The question is whether people are then willing to engage with what they hear. Promoting common values is not a miracle cure, but our evidence indicates people being more willing to reconsider their views if they know the other person shares common values."

"The main experiment surveyed a representative sample of roughly 2,500 Americans, soliciting views on three divisive issues: #abortion, #gun laws and #immigration ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/06/listening-political-opponents-who-share-common-values-can-ease-polarization

#echochamber #cornell #economics #research

Listening to political opponents who share common values can ease polarization

Americans are more willing to engage with opposing views than popular narratives about echo chambers presume, and perceived common ground can help moderate positions.

Cornell Chronicle

Paul Schoe Jun 7

RE: https://mas.to/@nemo/116708509646756449

A short video of how Social Media now only gives you what they know you will like and how the world has changed.

Some interesting quotes:

- Maybe your real job is shopping. The true factories of our time are the shopping malls.

- Politicians have become pantomime villains

- But you are cool, and there is more out there.

#SocialMedia #EchoChamber #Pantomime #Think

Devil's Panties May 22

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#EchoChamber,#globalist,#politics,#science,#SocialMedia

Philo Sophies May 12

🌍 Does #reality exist only in the #brain🧠
— or are we already living in the #reality of #DeepFakes 👥?

If everything we see, hear, and perceive is first constructed in the brain—how certain can we really be about #reality anymore?

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#BrainResearch #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #Epistemology #FilterBubble #EchoChamber #DeepFakes #MediaTheory #DigitalSociety #Algorithm #SocialMedia #Philosophy

sakis May 12

Very interesting article about the #socialmedia #echochamber effect, political views and stances.

https://thenoisyroom.com/

The Noisy Room

Only 3% of social media users post toxic content — but Americans estimate 43%. An interactive essay about what algorithms hide.

The Noisy Room

HelloMstdn May 9

RIP social media. What comes next is messy.

As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/rip-social-media-what-comes-next-is-messy/

#SocialMedia #FilterBubbles #EchoChamber

RIP social media. What comes next is messy.

As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?

Ars Technica

Benjamin J Gilbert May 6

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#Quora #EchoChamber

N-gated Hacker News May 3

Ah, the digital age's #Sisyphus has spoken! 🤖 Apparently, this brave soul has discovered that the best audience is an army of tireless, unsleeping bots… because who needs human readers when you can have a #spammy echo chamber? 🎉 Bravo, truly a #masterpiece of relevance in the attention economy.
https://hoeijmakers.net/thirty-years-of-caching-sorted-in-an-afternoon/ #digitalage #bots #attentioneconomy #echochamber #HackerNews #ngated