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>You get to actually have discussions with people Ofc. Mastodon by nature is an echo chamber. Choose your own enclosure and find people who agree with you. The
by bdz 8y ago
>You get to actually have discussions with people
Ofc. Mastodon by nature is an echo chamber. Choose your own enclosure and find people who agree with you. The only difference that Mastodon is the first where that's the main selling point
- AsyncAwait 8y agoI get what you're saying, but disagree. I receive plenty of pushback, but we have a back and forth and it can often be quite stimulating.
- toyg 8y agoThere is also self-selection: early adopters will always be, on average, more knowledgeable than mainstream users, which usually correlates with politeness and civility.
- sp332 8y agoSometimes it's just nice to have a conversation, you know? Not everyone is looking for an argument or criticism 100% of the time.
- _red 8y agoThe trope of "X is an echo-chamber" needs to die out. You say it like high-trust communities are a bad thing. All productive interest groups are that way by their nature (HN is that way too). The opposite simply devolves into lowest common denominator garbage...instagram models posing with their breakfast, twitter outrage-porn, etc.
- sp332 8y agoAnd in the bad old days of the internet, people wouldn't just pick one group to be part of. You could have different personas on different sites and decide how much to participate with different groups. This is harder to do with Twitter and Facebook because they only run one instance. E.g. there's no "fringe science" echo-chamber Twitter, but that means the fringe science people just get thrown in with the rest of Twitter.
- contravariant 8y agoYou can have the ability to make an echo chamber without making one. The truly dangerous situation is one where you don't have any control and an echo chamber is made for you.