It’s a fair question to ask, but I don’t necessarily think so. I think my filtering actually does the opposite and I do it to avoid the echo chamber. I use Red

It’s a fair question to ask, but I don’t necessarily think so. I think my filtering actually does the opposite and I do it to avoid the echo chamber. I use Reddit to read about and interact with people who share my interests/hobbies. I don’t engage in the big political subs because honestly all of them are garbage at this point and get me riled up for no good reason. I have mostly liberal viewpoints, but have no interest in engaging in the echo chamber that is /r/politics. I also quickly got banned from conservative subs for raising points that don’t agree with their party line. Neither camp is interested in substantive debate over there. I focus on subs like /r/nfl, /r/homelab, /r/<my_city>, /r/sdr, /r/GNURadio, etc. My default view of content is limited to those core interests. The reason I filter is that I still like discovering new subs. But I have no interest in the latest memes from FormulaDank or WallstreetBets. I don’t need the content from Trashy, Greentext or HermanCainAward in my life. I also don’t care to read about the war in Ukraine, Russia, Donald Trump, Putin, etc when my focus is recreational reading. I get news elsewhere. There is still a diversity of opinions in the content that remains, but I just choose not to participate in the subs that run on controversy. It’s just unhealthy. If my filters looked like “don’t show me anything about the republicans” and I still engaged with other political subs, maybe it’d be more of an echo chamber. Instead, if I see content that was clearly manufactured to make my blood boil, and that seems to be the general theme of the sub, I filter it. The alternative is to stop looking for new/interesting subs, and I’d rather not do that.