Is this such a bad thing? IMO echo chambers are underrated for psychological support. If you can be aware of the effect, that's ideal. You can come here when t

Is this such a bad thing? IMO echo chambers are underrated for psychological support. If you can be aware of the effect, that's ideal. You can come here when the world is just way too off-kilter for your taste, and have your entire info-person past reaffirmed. But if you turn away from certain types of echo chambers just because they're echo chambers, you'll naturally and more frequently find yourself in an unnatural stance, psychologically speaking. You'll more freqently find that your perspectives, brought forward from your own past, are untenable. That could be disastrous and possibly exacerbate conditions like anxiety. So, culturally we teach ourselves that echo chambers are "bad" but I think they're doing a really helpful thing by providing a baseline layer of community-knowledge feedback with a subjective effect which is moderated by the individual's own experience level. It could be something like the informational equivalent of someone saying, "yeah baby I know" when you're crying. You know they know, they know you know they know, etc. But if you chase the echo it starts to look like blaming a support structure, and that's a poor point of access to solutions in the context. I also don't think it's ironic that you're asking that here. This should happen naturally as members of a community compare themselves against their perception of the community itself. There is sometimes a lot of emotional content in this kind of setup. You joined N time-units ago, you've changed since then, and now look--the community is still doing this thing or that? A perspective on one's own identity as an "identity of productive change" can reinforce this differential perspective/judgment. I wonder if it could be though that an expectation of creative or cognitive variety may have been violated. Maybe that's worth exploring--how do we get more of that. It's more like it's the community system's own qualities that raise this kind of echo chamber discussion periodically, and I'd offer that this happens more frequently the less meaningful traction is perceived. (I think the chamber effect could be easily moderated by moving away from the up/down voting dichotomy, among other things)