There's a post goin' around about how Mastodon is an echo chamber that needs to let in more representation of AI voices instead of shitting on them.

Okay. So? Every social network on the planet is an echo chamber, of which at least two are right-wing echo chamber nazi bars, and every media outlet out there is beating themselves off to every fucking machine learning advancement/product there is. No matter how shitty it is, or how unethical its resource waste is for marginal gains.

You don't like it here? Don't get ass prints on the door on your way out, or in a slightly nicer tone, the Fediverse lets you run your own server and choose who to associate with, so you can, hypothetically create your own sloperator network, and what's more you don't even have to ask an AI to create the software to do so for you,, its already there. So, I don't know what else to say.

Maybe the Fediverse has its problems. Maybe we are an echo chamber. Maybe we can be more inclusive of diverse voices. But I'll also say, that this is the social network I'm most comfortable in, and I don't want to see it change for the worse. AI techbros have enough representation across literally every goddamn form of media and social network out there, so pardon me for saying: fuck off, I don't want it.

@da_667 I never understood the whole online echo chamber criticism. Like do I live in an echo chamber by living a city?

What's next your preferred bar is now an echo chamber? I really wonder if the whole point is "if you don't have everyone on the platform how can I advertise to everyone"?

@ladytel @da_667 good echo-chamber analogy. My interpretation of echo chamber is when a group is _only_ getting their news about society/government through their own 'circle'. Then that group is prone to not share the same view of "reality" (however manipulated by media it might be, but at least the info is shared among peers) as the rest of society in the pub/city/country/world. I don't see it applicable to the fediverse per-se or any other social media platform in isolation.