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I've found the opposite to be true with echo chambers. Twitter you normally just get the person's followers echoing around On HN, I never got the vibe of sect

I've found the opposite to be true with echo chambers. Twitter you normally just get the person's followers echoing around On HN, I never got the vibe of sects as anyone can be challenged and there is one singular front page instead of a custom algo home page that gives almost echo chamber by default with twitter. Because of the quality/voting, I never regret reading HN. I often regret knowing twitter exists after reading. Even if there is good content there, it is not enjoyable to follow a multiple tweet single thought or sorting through replies. It is just plain frustrating to me.

toyg 5y ago
> I never got the vibe of sects as anyone can be challenged However, I have definitely noticed that, over time, a certain set of views that were common before, have been marginalized or disappeared altogether. Particularly the libertarian/right-wing of the US political spectrum, which used to be very popular around here, is now substantially under-represented or even completely absent. I say that as someone who hated that perspective - I found certain comments maddening - but in a way it was interesting to hear views that are very far from my background. Part of it is probably that even tangentially-political content is stomped on extremely quickly by dang. Part of it is that the growth in the number of commenters clearly changed the social and geographical composition of commenters (there are lots of internationals like me now, whereas it used to be mostly US west-coasters). Part of it is probably that certain positions "lost" the public debate. In the end, it's how it is.
Too 5y ago
I think large part of that is user names here are very small and anonymous. As opposed to twitter and the old style phpBB forums where everybody has a much more prominent and recognizable avatar. There, you (subconsciously) judge by the person, before reading the content. Here, I hardly ever even read who I am replying to.

toyg 5y ago

> I never got the vibe of sects as anyone can be challenged However, I have definitely noticed that, over time, a certain set of views that were common before, have been marginalized or disappeared altogether. Particularly the libertarian/right-wing of the US political spectrum, which used to be very popular around here, is now substantially under-represented or even completely absent. I say that as someone who hated that perspective - I found certain comments maddening - but in a way it was interesting to hear views that are very far from my background. Part of it is probably that even tangentially-political content is stomped on extremely quickly by dang. Part of it is that the growth in the number of commenters clearly changed the social and geographical composition of commenters (there are lots of internationals like me now, whereas it used to be mostly US west-coasters). Part of it is probably that certain positions "lost" the public debate. In the end, it's how it is.

Too 5y ago

I think large part of that is user names here are very small and anonymous. As opposed to twitter and the old style phpBB forums where everybody has a much more prominent and recognizable avatar. There, you (subconsciously) judge by the person, before reading the content. Here, I hardly ever even read who I am replying to.