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> I think most people are a bit tired of the echo chambers online and the stats show it. Are they? The article suggests overall Twitter usage is down, what su

• billy99k 1y ago
  All major news breaks hit Twitter first. If people want echo chambers, why have Bluesky and Mastadon failed? We could also mention Parler, but it was shutdown illegally by left-wing activists at Amazon.
  • techpineapple 1y ago
    But it always has, Twitter hasn’t gotten bigger “people have gotten tired of echo chambers” would imply movement from echo chambers to places where people are together. Where’s the movement. I think _more_ people are opting for echo chambers than did at the hay day of the Internet, but not as many as you would think. So I wouldn’t say, “people are tired of echo chambers” I would say, “people are interested in echo chambers, but not as many as first thought”. But of course, none of these are true echo chambers, and this is in response to Nate Silver saying that he was glad that the far left is gone from Twitter, so everyone has a different definition of their sort of spectrum of “this is a different opinion” and “this is spam”. Is “I don’t want to be in the nazi bar” and “I don’t want bad faith leftists in my social media” a substantively different argument? But also, I dunno, I’m on blue sky and not Twitter because I don’t tend to enjoy being in the “place where it’s happening”. It’s not an echo chamber to me, just smaller, I hate obnoxious leftists too.