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You're literally describing living in a filter bubble. Given how often this community talks about things like privilege and bias, it's highly ironic (or maybe t

You're literally describing living in a filter bubble. Given how often this community talks about things like privilege and bias, it's highly ironic (or maybe telling) that a comment like that rises to the top here. It would be one thing if the negative stuff from Twitter was just internet drama and stayed on Twitter. Then anyone could "opt out". But it doesn't stay there. You can't opt out of things that spill into your life, your downtown, your company, your country.

tunesmith 5y ago
How is OP describing a filter bubble? OP is describing apolitical things as far as I can tell.
- throwawaynow76 5y ago
  Ignoring politics is an indulgence of the privileged class. If you curate your feed to avoid it then you are perpetuating harm. This is at least the argument that you will hear. On the one hand completely shutting out political content does seem like a let them eat cake attitude. But of course it isn’t binary. The problem is that the political content is everywhere now and it’s toxic. I don’t want to ignore the problems of the world and I also cannot allow the endless yelling to drag me into depression.
  - michaelmrose 5y ago
    If you ignored twitter and chose to be active in local politics you would be doing more actual good than 10 people tweeting 20x a day.
    - drusepth 5y ago
      10 people tweeting 20x a day is a pretty low bar. I'd wager to say anyone that's active in local politics is doing more good than 90% of politics-tweeters.
- gambler 5y ago
  If your customized experience on a website is drastically different from experience of many other people on that same website, you by definition operate in a filter bubble, regardless of whether it has anything to do with politics. You cannot use this customized experience as the sole argument to imply that experiences of other people on that website are somehow abnormal. When customized feeds and algorithms are in play, there is no such thing as "normal" experience to begin with. Another layer to this issue is the fact that Twitter (unlike some message board from early 00s) is big enough to influence society at large, so while you might decide to ignore a particular drama, the drama might not ignore you. Because of that a lot of conventional wisdom about "The Internet" doesn't really apply.
skystarman 5y ago
95% of the negative stuff and 99% of the political stuff on twitter has absolutely no bearing on what "stuff" is going on in the real world and is more likely to bias your own views than by just listening to the people in whatever your personal friend/work bubble is. Twitter is not real life. It's a deranged, toxic simulacrum of an alternative universe built by a god who hates us.

tunesmith 5y ago

How is OP describing a filter bubble? OP is describing apolitical things as far as I can tell.

throwawaynow76 5y ago
Ignoring politics is an indulgence of the privileged class. If you curate your feed to avoid it then you are perpetuating harm. This is at least the argument that you will hear. On the one hand completely shutting out political content does seem like a let them eat cake attitude. But of course it isn’t binary. The problem is that the political content is everywhere now and it’s toxic. I don’t want to ignore the problems of the world and I also cannot allow the endless yelling to drag me into depression.
- michaelmrose 5y ago
  If you ignored twitter and chose to be active in local politics you would be doing more actual good than 10 people tweeting 20x a day.
  - drusepth 5y ago
    10 people tweeting 20x a day is a pretty low bar. I'd wager to say anyone that's active in local politics is doing more good than 90% of politics-tweeters.
gambler 5y ago
If your customized experience on a website is drastically different from experience of many other people on that same website, you by definition operate in a filter bubble, regardless of whether it has anything to do with politics. You cannot use this customized experience as the sole argument to imply that experiences of other people on that website are somehow abnormal. When customized feeds and algorithms are in play, there is no such thing as "normal" experience to begin with. Another layer to this issue is the fact that Twitter (unlike some message board from early 00s) is big enough to influence society at large, so while you might decide to ignore a particular drama, the drama might not ignore you. Because of that a lot of conventional wisdom about "The Internet" doesn't really apply.

skystarman 5y ago

95% of the negative stuff and 99% of the political stuff on twitter has absolutely no bearing on what "stuff" is going on in the real world and is more likely to bias your own views than by just listening to the people in whatever your personal friend/work bubble is. Twitter is not real life. It's a deranged, toxic simulacrum of an alternative universe built by a god who hates us.