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>I created my own bubble on Facebook. Everyone does. There's nothing wrong with it. People at the coffee shops or the pubs were often people with similar inter

>I created my own bubble on Facebook. Everyone does. There's nothing wrong with it. People at the coffee shops or the pubs were often people with similar interests. The problem is that we exited the culture wars in around 2009. We went into societal crisis. For the next 10-15 years or so we will be looking for the collapse of the crisis. The funny thing is that people still think it's the culture wars. Especially the mass media. It's not. It's why culture wars like Gamergate or Greta Thunburg are not winning anything at all for their cause. The reason people are very concerned about these filter bubbles and the problems of social media is because those were fine during culture wars. They are huge problems now we are in the crisis era. The problem? The collapse of the crisis is always violent revolution or a world war that does not hold back. People want to break these bubbles in order to prevent what is rather inevitable. The funny thing is that nobody can predict who or what is the revolution. Which side has to lose? There's a bit of a problem. The democrats want to ban guns and generally dislike guns as a group. So if the revolution happens, who loses is pretty clear.

simmerup 6y ago
This comment is a great example of something produced by an online bubble. I'm sure if you talked like this in real life most people on your street would have no idea what you're talking about, because you're referencing niche ideas from niche internet subcommunities. It's a problem because it alienates you from your irl community
- amanaplanacanal 6y ago
  This seems spot on. I couldn’t tell what they were talking about, except the part at the end about gun control, which I disagreed with. Plenty of democrats own and like guns.
- sleepysysadmin 6y ago
  >This comment is a great example of something produced by an online bubble. I'm sure if you talked like this in real life most people on your street would have no idea what you're talking about, because you're referencing niche ideas from niche internet subcommunities. Im in an online bubble because im talking about a niche idea? What if I start talking about Django ModelAdmin templates? That would be quite niche. I bet there's only 5 other people in my city who could have that conversation with me. Point Im making is that yes it's quite niche and quite the bubble. I never denied the bubbles exist. I explicitly said everyone lives in a bubble and there's nothing wrong with it. The important reality is the rest of the subject. We aren't in culture wars anymore. We are in crisis akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution 77 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution 78 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War 78 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II 2021 - 1945 = 76 >It's a problem because it alienates you from your irl community what IRL community? nobody is allowed to see anyone else. It's also not like this is only subject I know about. Im not getting alienated.

simmerup 6y ago

This comment is a great example of something produced by an online bubble. I'm sure if you talked like this in real life most people on your street would have no idea what you're talking about, because you're referencing niche ideas from niche internet subcommunities. It's a problem because it alienates you from your irl community

amanaplanacanal 6y ago
This seems spot on. I couldn’t tell what they were talking about, except the part at the end about gun control, which I disagreed with. Plenty of democrats own and like guns.
sleepysysadmin 6y ago
>This comment is a great example of something produced by an online bubble. I'm sure if you talked like this in real life most people on your street would have no idea what you're talking about, because you're referencing niche ideas from niche internet subcommunities. Im in an online bubble because im talking about a niche idea? What if I start talking about Django ModelAdmin templates? That would be quite niche. I bet there's only 5 other people in my city who could have that conversation with me. Point Im making is that yes it's quite niche and quite the bubble. I never denied the bubbles exist. I explicitly said everyone lives in a bubble and there's nothing wrong with it. The important reality is the rest of the subject. We aren't in culture wars anymore. We are in crisis akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution 77 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution 78 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War 78 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II 2021 - 1945 = 76 >It's a problem because it alienates you from your irl community what IRL community? nobody is allowed to see anyone else. It's also not like this is only subject I know about. Im not getting alienated.