I can list *many* cases where echo chambers are not a bad thing at all. Of course this will depend on your definition of echo chamber, however, if any communit

I can list *many* cases where echo chambers are not a bad thing at all. Of course this will depend on your definition of echo chamber, however, if any community doesn’t begin with “we hold certain things to be self-evident” then that community will be overrun with noise and off topic nonsense. It will be impossible to find any relevant signal. And anyone who doubts this only needs to look at completely hands off forums to see this. They may be fun occasionally, but these are hardly useful if you’re looking for some kind of information. Im not implying you’re doing this, but many people imply that anything other than “hands off” is an echo chamber, and honestly, this is just silly. that kind of definition of “echo chamber” is all but useless. echo chambers are hardly inherently bad.