Echo chamber
The article that kicked off a fresh round of "echo chamber" discourse:
"...fair enough. ... Why not have a place on the internet that you can go and have a nice, civilised chat with someone who shares your worldview without the risk of coming across a load of vile racist content?" Because, Kelly says, "I believe" a "messier" platform that's more of a "digital town square" just is "preferable to a series of siloed echo chambers."
— "With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue," Jemima Kelly, Financial Times, Sept 22, 2024 (archive link)
"IRL do you expect to sit down at a table of your friends and have a stranger grab a seat and shout racist and/or sexist epithets at you and everyone you're with? ... The people complaining about echo chambers don't want a party. They want an awkward family dinner. ... the only way they can get people to listen to them is if they're forced to because they're creepy weirdos. I'm convinced they don't even like one another or else they'd go have their own party." (Bluesky 1, 2, 3)
"i just cannot get over someone writing an op-ed about wishing for a social media platform with a diversity of viewpoints, who then recoils when people with different viewpoints weigh in. i cannot i cannot i cannot" (Bluesky)
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