If I see one more ā€˜is mastodon an echo chamber’ post, I’m gonna lose it! Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s an echo chamber but I like this echo chamber.

ā€œBut you’re not being tolerant!ā€ Fuck off, with your racist, sexist, ableist nonsense! I don’t want any form of it

@farah

I think a hatred echo chamber is bad because of the hatred, not the echoing. that is what corporate media is for.

I think a community echo chamber is good because of the community and the echoing. that is what fediverse is for.

it's pretty funny when outsiders from the first group stick their head in our open door to scream "QUIT HAVING FUN!!!" at people having fun.

@falcennial @farah Everywhere becomes an echo chamber over a long enough timeline as people self-select their way into or out of it, that's just what happens to any space.

I prefer a nicer echo chamber.

@falcennial @farah

I think it’s even worse. ā€œQuit having fun THAT WE CANT MONITIZE AND GATEKEEPā€

@shane @falcennial @farah ObFilkRef Elfland by Leslie Fish*.

"And all you tell me,
Is you don’t care.
You can’t put a meter on,
Sunlight or air.
....
And when you’ve won all those,
Games that you’ve played,
You just might see there’s,
No one left to pay.

We’ll have the whole world,
That you threw away,
And we won’t know you at all.
We won’t know you at all."

*Yeah, Leslie's politics and stated positions ranged from problematic to unacceptable. But d*mn she could write... I'm picky about which of her songs I'll listen to, let alone reference. But I'm not giving up the good ones.

#filk

@jjmcgaffey @shane @farah ooh I like this poem, even though I dont know her at all. thank you for this enrichment
@falcennial @farah Nobody really hates echo chambers. They just hate the ones they disagree with.
@bit101 @farah aha, here you have cut to the bedrock of it! honest, true, and smartly put.