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In a system that tends to reward closing your horizons with a sense of safety and belonging the trend wont be towards expanding horizons. Don't build systems th
by michaelmrose 6y ago
In a system that tends to reward closing your horizons with a sense of safety and belonging the trend wont be towards expanding horizons. Don't build systems that don't work like you want them to in practice because in theory people could use them better.
- dane-pgp 6y agoOur existing systems already generate echo chambers (due to the emergent properties of algorithms and/or the choices people make when they consume media), and that's in the best case where your horizons aren't just set by the political leanings of the employees of the companies that run the systems that provide most of the content. As long as people could choose different communities that had moderation policies which suited their members, it would allow those who wanted to hear other perspectives to do so, and might make people aware of what sort of echo chamber they are in.