🇺🇦 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 threadZhenbo LiNov 21, 2022

@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.

Show threadTrekNov 21, 2022
@zhenboli @Sludge @sean the echo chamber can exist physically. If you only associate with like minded people irl then you're potentially in one.
Show threadSludgeNov 21, 2022
@trekman10 @zhenboli @sean that'd be called having friends?
Show threadTrekNov 21, 2022

@Sludge @zhenboli @sean my friends don't all hold the exact same opinions as each other, do yours?

And I mean even further than that this includes your co-workers, clients, neighbors, etc. People you might not consider "friends" but still have social interactions with

Show threadSludgeNov 21, 2022
@trekman10 @zhenboli @sean obviously my neighbours, colleagues, acquaintances and even family do not have the same opinions as me. I am friends with people who have the same world view as me. Are you not? The point I am making is that it is possible to hear other people's opinions without being friends with them. People should not be criticised for hanging out with like minded groups. This is not the same as not listening to the other side.
Show threadTrek
@Sludge @zhenboli @sean I think we're defining worldview differently. I would consider someone from southern france to have lilely have a different worldview than someone from Syria. I don't just mean if they're fascist or not.
Nov 21, 2022 at 11:55pmWeb
Show threadSludgeNov 22, 2022
@trekman10 @zhenboli @sean by worldview I mean attitudes. I don't think it is wrong to have friends who have similar attitudes to you. It doesn't mean you can't listen to other opinions. And if you find those opinions objectionable, why *should* you be friends?
Show threadTrekNov 22, 2022
@Sludge @zhenboli @sean fair. But my friends and I get into lots of Deep conversations and we're bound to have wildly divergent perspectives and ideas about how the world works or should work and I wasn't sure if you were against having friends like that because that's what I think of when I think of worldview