Anyone who does not spend all day every day watching Coca-Cola ads, reading kpop stan twitter and browsing incel buildmaxxing forums is:
A) A sensible person.
B) Living in a filter bubble, and making their life far richer as a result.
C) Ceding all right to complain about other people's filter bubbles.
Because that's the thing. We all do this. It's the only way to live in a world which creates more information every minute than we can take in every day.
When people complain about others living in a filter bubble, 99% of the time they are not complaining that people do it; they're complaining that their own speech is being classified alongside Coca-Cola adverts and other uninteresting slop.
If you have avoided it, you are better off not knowing.
I'm not gonna link to it here or mention the dude's name.
The very short version is that he is a very senior tech dude on the business side rather than the actual coding side, has worked in Google and places like that. The sort of person who we think of as belonging on LinkedIn. The sort who thinks tech happens in meeting rooms rather than in command lines. You know the type.
Anyway, he posted a thread about how Mastodon is not going to be taken seriously until we stop being mean to AI aficionados. As he wrote it turned into something of a meltdown, with the term bubble used extensively, and finally led to comparisons between Black people not feeling welcome on Mastodon (which is a problem and sucks) and AI boosters not feeling welcome (which is good and proper and we should bully them more.)
After a great deal of pushback, he said he was going to back off and reconsider, which is the classy thing to do; and then got back into fighting with individuals, which is not.
There are some very thoughtful comments on the matter by various people.
He is currently a major figure in the software company that manages the Mastodon code development, so that left some people concerned.
Here are some people who I felt had good takes on it:
@blogdiva
@zzt
@artemis
@johnzajac
I would like to not debate the matter further but if you want to be involved then these peoples' timelines will hopefully give you all you need.
@froztbyte @passenger @burnitdown @blogdiva @zzt @artemis
Wait, whose is hidden? lol
Passenger
JP
John