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Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media by i-LINK on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:19AM (#43610454)
An echo chamber, also known as "a community" or "having friends," is basically how most human interaction worked before the Web popularized constant, context-collapsed arguing with various types of reactionaries, conspiracy theorists, bio-essentialists, "race realists," "climate skeptics," etc., about which "evidence" sounds or feels the most correct (rather than what evidence is actually provably correct).
Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media by pmarreck on Monday April 07, 2025 @04:55PM (#43615847)
Fair enough. I suppose that's one way to look at it. Except perhaps greatly-magnified online.