Mastodawn

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!

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Scott Jenson 2d ago

OK, this is going even MORE sideways so I need to make a few things clear:
1. I took a complex point and made it poorly
2. My goal was to ask for more inclusiveness
3. I am sickened by what happend to BlackTwitter and I don't want it recur
4. But I can't speak for BlackTwitter nor should I
5. I apologize to black mastodon users for making such a poor comparison
6. I'm not endorsing "AI Slop" they were a foil to make my point
7. I'm certainly NOT trying to compare AI bros to Black twitter (but, as I said, I can see how people made that connection. I'm trying to correct that here)

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Tael 🔜 AC26 2d ago

@scottjenson Respectfully, Mastodon is less of an echo chamber than any social media on earth presently. That's exactly why people bounce off of it. There is absolutely nothing built into the system to shepherd you into a "good" experience. It's just humans. Love 'em or leave 'em, but if you stay it's on you to curate your experience. A lotta people don't like that, and that's OK. All Mastodon users ever asked for was the option to exist in a space they owned. Not for Threads, Bluesky, and Twitter to all shut down and everyone to be on Mastodon.

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'Pa

@tael @scottjenson Haha, precisely. Mastodon is more left-leaning; the topics mentioned by OP (AI bubble, and tech bubbles) simply have "less engagement" on Mastodon because we don't care about those. At least, not in my curated feed.
People complaining Mastodon is an echo chamber 1) don't get what's an echo chamber; 2) are just annoyed their agenda didn't find traction here; and 3) are likely on Mastodon for the wrong reasons.
When they're ready to drop the mask and present as the furry/closeted child/anxious-impostor syndrome-riddled-entrepreneur (or whatever) they actually are, Mastodon will welcome them with open arms.