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Not all echo chamber are bad. It's like religions. Somebody who lives deep in the religion that they believing in might deny all other beliefs, and almost all
by nirui 5y ago
Not all echo chamber are bad.
It's like religions. Somebody who lives deep in the religion that they believing in might deny all other beliefs, and almost all religions were created from adult fairy tales (in another word, lies). But what if a religion makes people peaceful, kind, productive and healthy while strongly rejects the idea of harming the others? Is that religion bad?
Contrary to what people might think, more information does not necessarily make you more rational and reasonable. It can be the opposite, sometimes information makes you anger and hatred, while ignorance gives you the power of justice and forgiveness. That's why sometimes those who made improvement to the world were doing so from their own veil of ignorance. Nobody tell them to hate, so they helped instead.
Echo chamber is an overly stigmatize word. It's true that some people handled it poorly, thus sadly created a spiral that dragged them all the way down. But on the other hand, echo chamber can also be a useful moderate tool to keep yourself out of those harmful ideas online too. It depends on how you craft the chamber, how you use it, and whether you left the door unlocked.
I would rather use my ignorance as a vault to keep my humanity.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoReddit has a similar feature built in. How is it used? Trolls post something inflammatory and then block people that post dissenting opinions. In the end all that’s left is a comment chain normalizing whatever hate or drivel got posted.
- panarky 5y agoIf I block a person how does that affect your ability to see that person's dissenting opinions?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoSee the comments in this thread [1]. If I make a post and then block you, you can’t reply to anyone else in my thread, not just me. You can’t even participate in my discussion thread, even if you aren’t directly replying to me. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blocking_updates/ https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blo...