BeepMe watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me:
vgaWhat a stupid argument. Some people are obviously trolls or commenting in bad faith. Blocking people like that does not build an echo chamber. If this person had said “block every person who disagrees with you” then yeah, you’re going to end up with an echo chamber.
Personally, I think it’s important to avoid blocking people so that I can see them spreading false information and that they get challenged on their BS. But plenty of people are coming to social media/ forums/ whatever you consider Lemmy to engage with other people who share a similar hobby. Not everyone needs to deal with assholes fighting over (usually American) politics.
I have been labeled a troll many a time, for:
- arguing against adblockers
- arguing for YouTube premium
- saying the USSR killed a bunch of people (and many other historical facts)
- saying not voting for Kamala carries responsibility for what trump does
- saying that the average voter prefers moderate democrats
- condemning treatment of Uygurs
Arguing against adblocker and for YouTube premium is the most center of the bell curve IQ meme take I’ve ever heard.
That’s kind of half the picture though. Adblocking and piracy are not done in a vacuum. You typically block ads in response to the unethical practice of hostile design and the abuse of human psychology to be conditioned positively to something through exposure rather than just making a good product. Piracy is often in response to unethical business practices as well.
If none of those unethical forces existed, you can be sure there would be a lot less pirates and adblockers. But in our current world piracy and adblocking are often straight up ethical in relative terms.