🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛Nov 20, 2022

Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.

After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.

This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.

Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.

Show threadSludgeNov 20, 2022
@sean the echo chamber argument is misunderstood, imo. An echo chamber is where you never hear anything other than your own voice. You can avoid that without having to be friends with the school bully.
Show thread🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛Nov 20, 2022

@Sludge

Yes you can. And you can also avoid that while insisting on only viewpoints grounded in facts and valid data.

Put another way, science is not an echo chamber.

Show threadcreatinglake
@sean @Sludge science isn't an echo chamber but groups of humans in scientific fields can create echo chambers, dismissing even facts outside of their collective worldview. It's not always so easy to determine fact from fiction. Sometimes it's very easy... I'm pretty sure that Earth is round!
Nov 21, 2022 at 1:34pmMastodon for Android
Show threadSludgeNov 21, 2022
@creatinglake @sean yes, echo chambers exist and it's best to avoid them. My point is only that to do that, you don't have to hang out with flat earthers. You just need to know what they think.
Show threadnaught101Nov 21, 2022
@creatinglake @sean @Sludge you and most people, but actually it's an oblate spheroid. With bumps :P
Show threadcreatinglakeNov 21, 2022
@naught101 @sean @Sludge roughly speaking. 🙂