There's going to be echo chambers wherever you go, Lemmy's an echo chamber as well, only difference is it's mostly left leaning Linux and trekkies
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There was a kurzgesagdt video related to this, discussing a few perspectives
Blocking + Algorithms feeding things similar to your taste is already forming an echo chamber. Bluesky with it's community driven block lists and starter packs makes this much easier too.
It can be a good thing or bad. Just depends on what you want out of the platform.
The conundrum of echo chambers is that the term is a misnomer. It is tribalism. We all want to belong in our tribe by animal instinct. We are not fully capable of belonging to a tribe that encompasses all minutia within the human experience. We need tribalism for so many reasons beyond conflict such as the emotional and social support it provides. The primary issue is how these tribes evolve and the measures in place to moderate them at multiple levels. There are many dangerous tribes. So the question is who is doing the steering and what are their motivations. This is a simulacrum of democracy. Is your tribe steered by its members, or by some individual? Is leadership done by a meritocracy, cronyism, anarchism, or authoritarianism. This is why I say, "a bad mod/admin is a visible mod/admin." A democratic leader is one that serves the people. It is like a job of a CEO that does a daily job as the anonymous janitor. If the leader of a tribe is visible, the steering is active, and the ongoing motivations of such individuals must remain an active concern because they are dangerous.
People fleeing Xitter is creating more and more of an echo chamber. But normies don't like listening to Nazis and white supremacists, so that's really Elon's fault.
Yeah, I'm fine if people who have Concerns about white people becoming a minority don't get promoted by the algorithm.
What's the point of getting mad at all the stupid racist and ignorant shit that maga spew? Is trying to reason with them going to do anything? It's better to just push them out of your space entirely. Liberals are their own worst enemies anyway, we're going to argue about something eventually.