> I think Mastodon is even more dangerous than Twitter/FB in reinforcing filter bubbles. Probably for most people this is a benefit. Not having strangers shov

> I think Mastodon is even more dangerous than Twitter/FB in reinforcing filter bubbles. Probably for most people this is a benefit. Not having strangers shove their firmly held beliefs down your throat is a net gain for one's mental sanity in my mind. However I feel like this problem shows itself only because the vast majority of people think of social media in terms of an all encompassing amorphous mass of discussion where all ideas are worthy and all topics are valid. As someone that builds a service in the same space as Mastodon I am trying to steer away from this behaviour. My project addresses itself to small to medium communities that are focusing their discussions on common interests and topics, and allow for moderators and system operators to police this with the help of individual members. The members on the other hand, can take part in any other community as long as they play by their rules, through the mechanism of ActivityPub federation. Think of it as subreddits but enforced on a service level but having the capability to intercommunicate both at a server to server level and on a client to server level.