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  • Gunpachi@lemmings.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I hope more active users move to the fediverse. That way we will have a lot of variety in content and can also potentially prevent communities from becoming echo chambers. I suppose moderation will also have to be taken up a notch for these changes to actually have a positive effect.

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I hear echo chamber brought up a lot but never really have seen examples of a place that doesn’t have an echo chamber.

      I think that’s just the natural result of people forming communities as opposed seeking out battle grounds for adversaries.

      Only thing that can be done is offering people the tools to freely form as many communities as they want with the main barrier being who feels compelled to join the new echo chamber community.

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      prevent communities from becoming echo chambers

      I suspect this will still become a problem since we can subscribe to whichever communities we like and vice versa.

      • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        It is a feature, not a problem.

        I have, like, this whole rich life offline. My curated list of instances and communities (plus my user block list) is just my entertainment and a small portion of my day.

        You may not believe this but I have numerous thoughts, activities and interactions that never leave a trace online. I have no obligation to drink from the firehose that is being pumped from the septic tank of the human psyche.

    • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      6 days ago

      Echo chambers are not bad when the echo is due to the majority opinions being in favor of basic human rights and equality. Giving voice to those that spew hate is not conducive to going anywhere except a circle.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        And you will be the one deciding what constitutes hate, whose voice to cut off?

        • ScoobyDope@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          The community tends to vote with the little arrows.

          And thankfully, hate is pretty easy to identify. Take any group of people, if you don’t like one in particular, the whole group, that’s hate. I don’t like trans people. I don’t like black people. See? It’s easy.

          There is acceptable hate, and that’s based on human morality. I hade racists. I hate pedos.

          If everyone lived with that simple philosophy in mind, love thy fellow humans, not hate (except you, pedos) then the world would be a better place.