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It is a tiny tool that pushes people further into echo chambers. Opting out into the “I don’t need to know anything about politics” is itself an echo chamber, u
by keiferski 2y ago
It is a tiny tool that pushes people further into echo chambers. Opting out into the “I don’t need to know anything about politics” is itself an echo chamber, usually by well-off people (as you mentioned.)
It would be really great to see people making little tools that go in the opposite direction.
- krapp 2y agoWe don't need people to make tools that go in the opposite direction. Politics is everywhere on the internet. No one needs a tool to find political opinions online any more than one needs a tool to find cockroaches in a sewer.
- keiferski 2y agoI don’t think you understood my comment at all, the point of which was to create tools that help people understand each other better.
- krapp 2y agoI don't think that's a problem that can be solved with technology. And sometimes people understand others perfectly well, and their choice to avoid those people isn't the result of ignorance or fear.