I know, I get it. Echo chambers are bad m’kay?
But hear me out. Most of the interactions I had on there were essentially me fighting against the news for about 11 years. Most of the people I argued with were reactionary and repeated everything on TV. It was frustrating and it was awful.
I gained little insight into what was going on by interacting with them, and in retrospect, I could’ve been no better off here. And honestly, I feel less on edge about current affairs being around people who get it. I’m one degree removed from crazy.
I’m glad there are spaces on the web where I can get away from all of that nonsense. So, I guess, in a sense, thank you for being here.
I don’t buy into the echo chamber bullshit. At least the way people look at it. Folks went to places with people they got along with weather it be bars, or church, or clubs, or whatever. The echochamber is more something a person needs to do individually. Maybe get out and converse with someone from another club or do a diverse enough amount of stuff that you will encounter some folks with differeing views but you don’t need to make your day to day annoying. Keep an open mind but you don’t have to abandon everything. Its like lets take a chrisitian with a liberal enough faith philosophy that they accept multiple faiths views on gods even if not their denomination. Now expecting that same person to be open minded about a group that believes and and worships satan would just be rediculous. Its funny I am using this example though because I am athiest but I was looking for something were a person was flexible but not willing to throw out the core idea.
also echo chambers arise due to algorithms controlled by people who very specifically want you to end up in an echo chamber pushing horrible opinions, worrying about ending up in a left-wing echo chamber is like worrying about ending up in a room filled with friendly dogs, oh no the horrors…