This is very well said. “Bubble” and “echo chamber” is just a pejorative way to say “community.” - ThreadSky

fraying.bsky.social • 14 days ago

This is very well said. “Bubble” and “echo chamber” is just a pejorative way to say “community.”

I actually kinda dislike the framing of "bubble" or "echo chambers" because it implies a lack of access or knowledge of other viewpoints. That's not true.

I think a more accurate framing is that different sites have different *cultures*. And... that's kind of normal.

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kwuk.bsky.social•13 days ago

And some of us read and follow other media, unlike most Fox Entertainment devotees.

joelgrant.bsky.social•13 days ago

If there is an echo I prefer it to not be 'sieg heil'.

profjabbott.bsky.social•13 days ago

I mean in real life I don't associate with fascists so why should I online?

fraying.bsky.social•13 days ago

bethpink.bsky.social•13 days ago

Exactly.. I'm perfectly well aware what Maga is frothing at the mouth about. I just choose to filter it out to save my sanity.

donotfucaround.bsky.social•13 days ago

2charlotte45.bsky.social•13 days ago

99% bully free

fraying.bsky.social•14 days ago

This mistake is downstream of the idea that every social site needs to include everyone to be relevant. Thats not how communities have ever worked!

jaicporter.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh i like this outlook.

frodo58.bsky.social•13 days ago

Access to other information and knowledge, and not availing oneself of it, is what makes the framing or description of "bubble" correct. Fox, OANN, Newsmax, The Blaze, etc. These are "Echo Chambers". A "Community of Cultist's". I see all the video footage and see the words they speak. It's a Cult! ✌️

watersign719.bsky.social•13 days ago

I like my intelligent, empathetic, artistic, nature-loving, politically conscious, crafty echo chamber! If I want to argue with a bunch of narrow-minded bigots, I know where the other bubbly, echo chambers are.🤨

realitychik.bsky.social•14 days ago

To me, "bubble" and "echo chamber" are misinterpreted. They don’t imply limited access to info, but rather shelter partisans who CHOOSE not to get information outside said bubble or refuse to consider other points of view that may challenge what they get inside the safety of the bubble/echo chamber.

carinachocano.bsky.social•14 days ago

Right, and meanwhile they are “a movement.” (Sure, but a bowel movement.)

mrpickenpaugh.bsky.social•13 days ago

Weird that anyone would want something truly social from something called social media.

I know when I hang out for dinner with friends, we usually try to find strangers we're certain we dislike, invite them over, then let them sit on our laps, hector, spit and whine at us on their choleric terms.

fraying.bsky.social•13 days ago

markinalgarrobos.bsky.social•14 days ago

I don't hang out with Maga Nazis. If that means I'm in a bubble.. OK! Outside is a shithole, and you can't me go there.

rajacexplains.bsky.social•14 days ago

I quite like the idea that we replace the word "club" or "society" with "echo chamber".

"Hi! Welcome to the local board game echo chamber!"

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