Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
@ben But that's the very definition of a mono-culture. A vibrant community allows all of these topics, encourages them even. Then, with filters, who you follow, hashtags, and blocking you get the feed you want.
To get the culture you want by cutting off the supply is counter productive.
@scottjenson @ben I think that is in parts what happens. I noticed that my timeline, thanks to blocks and mutes has become quite monotone.
To get out of that, I recently went to some instances outside my bubble and follow (more or less) random people.
As a thought bite: I think in the earlier days the federated timeline countered this experience better, but AFAIK as part of UX improvements for instances like mastodon.social that has moved more out of focus.
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