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You say it’s not nefarious but isn’t that how echo chambers are created?
by jeron 4y ago
You say it’s not nefarious but isn’t that how echo chambers are created?
- krapp 4y agoI don't believe echo chambers are nefarious - there's no hidden agenda involved with them. That's just how recommendation algorithms work, and it's what most people want. But if someone finds some code that suppresses recommendations from a specific political ideology across the board, that would be nefarious, IMO.
- thfuran 4y agoEcho chambers may not be nefarious, but they are insidious.
- krapp 4y agoThey can be if they're involuntary and inescapable, but neither is the case for Twitter. It's designed around letting you curate your own feed, but it also constantly throws random stuff in through retweets and quote tweets - which is what people hate the most about the platform.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago[flagged]
- kodah 4y agoThis comment likely violates the guidelines both in form and content.
- krapp 4y agoI don't believe repeating someone's comment nearly verbatim is as clever as you want it to be, nor do I believe recommendation algorithms are equivalent to the kinds of societal discrimination you allude to, nor would any reasonable person. Instead of trying very hard to be clever, please next time try just as hard to make a valid point. I know it can be difficult when you think you smell karma in the water but do try.
- yazzku 4y agoThe echo chamber in your first point does the suppression in the second.