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.

@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.

@Sludge @sean IMHO the echo chamber is referring to the algorithms only push the information you like, or the algorithm assumes you like.

However, Mastodon is returning the timeline back. Users HAVE TO find interesting accounts to follow. They are responsible for own timeline, instead of staying in the bubble, created by recommendation systems.

@zhenboli @sean great point