I will take echo chamber of friends and kind people and intelligent people learning and sharing ideas over trying to convince horrible human beings to be decent any day of the week.
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People possessing true intelligence will not have any fear of putting forward their own ideas and are capable of interesting debate. No need for an echo chamber here. Got to love actual free speech.
It’s definitely a bad thing if your echo chamber is degradation, and that’s exactly what’s going on in X. Just a bunch of degenerates bouncing degenerate ideas back and forth. So it just gets worst and worst. You keep weeds out of garden for a reason.
They need to hurt or feel like they are hurting someone! Im convinced because they grew up with it, it was done to them and now it’s someone else turn. Those are the real walking dead! Zombies… they just are drawn towards sucking the life out of life!
Absolutely spot on and I don't get it, or respect it.
I had a cardiac arrest, I suffered brain damage as a result and now my right hand is locked in a claw, my right foot has dropped so I can't walk or use my right hand properly.
Things are shit for me in general, be it health support or (1/2)
or care. I don't get much money through disability, and I am lucky to have a council place to live.
I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I go through, I want the system and the world to be better for people, not to bring everyone down to my level through bitterness. (2/2)
Echo chambers stifle critical thinking and limit our learning. An echo chamber of people who only swap recipes & discuss puppies is as limiting as an echo chamber of right wing conservatives. Healthy debate is an important part of socialisation.
Nah, I've lived for 40 years and in those 40 years I've come to realise there is no discussion, there is no debate when it comes to those on the right wing. They don't want discussion or debate, they don't want their viewpoint challenged and as a result, I won't engage with those fascists.
No difference in principle for the echo chambers of those who scorn anything but recipes and puppies. No discussion, no debate, no challenging viewpoints. Same may be said for any other echo chamber.
Maybe you need another 20 years on the planet to realise 😉
I'm very happy to filter out people who would vote for restrictions on my health, restrictions on my friends health and peole who vote for parties that seek to eradicate my trans or gay friends.
No one who's smart would actually use the words echo chamber lol. The point of friendship is to be around ppl you vibe with. So those words don't really make sense to me.
Twitter already is tbh, the right wing trolls took that place over once Daddy Musk bought it for them.
Imagine seeing a place where Tommy Robinson, Katie Hopkins, Graham Linehan or JK Rowling were initially banned but then added back and then thinking "Huh, this place seems cool"...
The entire concept of an echo chamber cracks me up because that might be true if we used this platform as say, The only way we received news in lieu of actual journalism and we shut everything out. It's a problem with social media in general
I just think social media is a stupid way to get your news. Lies can spread very quickly, there are no journalistic checks on what information goes out, The most antagonistic far-fetched click baity stuff is going to get the most attention.
I still get my news, I just don't get it from social media
I also look to confirm what look like important stories with trusted news sources that fire people for lying, not just when they settle a lawsuit. Fox News need not apply.
All mainstream media outlets fire people for telling the truth. Not for lying, including Fox. If it goes against the narrative it's not allowed. How do people not see this?
When social media started people weren't "influencers" or pundits. We use it to connect to people we actually knew and stay in touch. Then we were using it to make new friends based around our interests.
But that's not where the money is, so social media turns into disinfo, grifting, scams, etc
Yes. Not only are there zero guardrails about the quality of the information you're receiving, But because attention comes to the people who can put out information the fastest, accounts are actively encouraged to release information without fact checking and even in the rare event that they issue
We live an in instant gratification culture now so factchecking is virtually nonexistent..I can’t begin to say how many times I’ll get a text from my mom wondering if what she’s read is true or not. It’s like facts just don’t matter anymore
a correction if and when they realize they are wrong, It will never keep up with the lie, which is already out there and will be repeated endlessly. The very structure of these platforms encourages people to do zero fact checking before releasing info in an effort to be first - its all that matters
If someone wants to accuse me of being in a "knitting echo chamber" Because all of my knitting friends like to knit the same way I will accept accountability for that horrific crime 😄
But in reality it's just "trolling & being trolled is boring, so we're opting out" & they have no other purpose
Even the more divisive conversations I've had here feels more healthy and less "arguing for the sake of arguing".
And it's been easier to divest myself from conversations I felt weren't serving me, instead of ending up seeing dozens of replies that I had to keep muting different offshoot threads.
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People can scream "echo chamber" at me all they want, I very happily see it as not associating with cunts.
I had a cardiac arrest, I suffered brain damage as a result and now my right hand is locked in a claw, my right foot has dropped so I can't walk or use my right hand properly.
Things are shit for me in general, be it health support or (1/2)
I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I go through, I want the system and the world to be better for people, not to bring everyone down to my level through bitterness. (2/2)
Maybe you need another 20 years on the planet to realise 😉
I'm very happy to filter out people who would vote for restrictions on my health, restrictions on my friends health and peole who vote for parties that seek to eradicate my trans or gay friends.
Better get a duck in here to check the echo.
"What do you mean you don't want to associate with right wing fascists and transphobes? How dare you ignore them! You MUST engage with them".
Naaaaaaaaaah I'm alright mate, cheers.
Imagine seeing a place where Tommy Robinson, Katie Hopkins, Graham Linehan or JK Rowling were initially banned but then added back and then thinking "Huh, this place seems cool"...
But that's not what's happening here.
I still get my news, I just don't get it from social media
But that's not where the money is, so social media turns into disinfo, grifting, scams, etc
But in reality it's just "trolling & being trolled is boring, so we're opting out" & they have no other purpose
And it's been easier to divest myself from conversations I felt weren't serving me, instead of ending up seeing dozens of replies that I had to keep muting different offshoot threads.