What next? The intellectual dark web? I think we can have a free market of ideas or whatever you’re fetishising without it meaning that I can’t sit on the couch and open an app to see some family photos without it being intermingled with some loser saying that trans people should be hanged on the street.

And you know for a fact that I am not exaggerating. This is where the current political discourse is at.

Can I please have the freedom to do that without the lecture?

Do you really need political commentary in your family photos?

(Apparently the answer is "yes", but the commentary must be of the partisan approved kind.)

Your family photos should be on the Photos app and you'd have no problems.

That sort of rage bait is literally targeted to rile up people sitting on the opposite side of the kind of people watching that other media site that rhymes with socks. It’s all fake bullshit algorithmically optimized to divide.

Everybody thinks their tribe is immune to this sort of stuff but it isn’t. It’s all the same nonsense packaged for different echo chambers.

At the end of the day, everybody is human. It isn’t us vs them, it’s just us.

Do you think you should have full control over the web browser on the computer you own?

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

Having the right to choose what you see doesn't mean you should choose to build yourself an ideological bubble.

I avoid hateful people and pub bores in real life, too.

Assuming that everyone in the other tribe is "hateful people and pub bores" is kind of the problem.

what the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...

I want Facebook to be like the current top post on here: my family and friends social stuff. I can come to hn to get out of my silo.

My wife uses the app, hence the "consistently block the assholes" approach. But if you're willing to stick to the website I can actually offer you this. Write a browser plugin that redirects you to "/?filter=all&sk=h_chr" every time you land on "/". That's what I use for myself.

The worst to me is the way people dehumanize other people who don't agree with them.

The other side politically doesn't just have different views, they are barely human knuckle draggers. Basically neanderthals, so who cares if they go extinct.

"don't agree with them" is carrying a lot of weight here, isn't it?

It's a month-old account.

It’s HN. People create new accounts here all the time to protect their anonymity.

Trolls do as well. Very often if a comment is "bad", it comes from a relatively new account. Then it gets banned and a new account is created. Technically it's ban evasion, but dang doesn't really want to change anything at this point.

It does.

One side: this group of people shouldn't even exist. The other side: no, let them exist actually.

The other side sees you the same way, congrats on being enlightened.