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How can we complain that everyone is siloed and no one talks to each other and complian that their feed is full of ideas outside of the silo.
by ipaddr 7mo ago
How can we complain that everyone is siloed and no one talks to each other and complian that their feed is full of ideas outside of the silo.
- flir 7mo agoDo you think you should have full control over the web browser on the computer you own?
- AnthonyMouse 7mo ago“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” Having the right to choose what you see doesn't mean you should choose to build yourself an ideological bubble.
- flir 7mo agoI avoid hateful people and pub bores in real life, too. If you use the web without an ad blocker, more power to you, I guess.
- AnthonyMouse 7mo agoAssuming that everyone in the other tribe is "hateful people and pub bores" is kind of the problem.
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo agoWhat next? The intellectual dark web? I think we can have a free market of ideas or whatever you’re fetishising without it meaning that I can’t sit on the couch and open an app to see some family photos without it being intermingled with some loser saying that trans people should be hanged on the street. And you know for a fact that I am not exaggerating. This is where the current political discourse is at. Can I please have the freedom to do that without the lecture?
- otabdeveloper4 7mo ago[flagged]
- vasco 7mo agoYour family photos should be on the Photos app and you'd have no problems.
- cruffle_duffle 7mo agoThat sort of rage bait is literally targeted to rile up people sitting on the opposite side of the kind of people watching that other media site that rhymes with socks. It’s all fake bullshit algorithmically optimized to divide. Everybody thinks their tribe is immune to this sort of stuff but it isn’t. It’s all the same nonsense packaged for different echo chambers. At the end of the day, everybody is human. It isn’t us vs them, it’s just us.
- garte 7mo agowhat the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...
- harvey9 7mo agoI want Facebook to be like the current top post on here: my family and friends social stuff. I can come to hn to get out of my silo.
- flir 7mo agoMy wife uses the app, hence the "consistently block the assholes" approach. But if you're willing to stick to the website I can actually offer you this. Write a browser plugin that redirects you to "/?filter=all&sk=h_chr" every time you land on "/". That's what I use for myself.
- fatherwavelet 7mo agoThe worst to me is the way people dehumanize other people who don't agree with them. The other side politically doesn't just have different views, they are barely human knuckle draggers. Basically neanderthals, so who cares if they go extinct.
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- duskdozer 7mo ago"don't agree with them" is carrying a lot of weight here, isn't it?
- flir 7mo agoIt's a month-old account.
- cruffle_duffle 7mo agoIt’s HN. People create new accounts here all the time to protect their anonymity.
- AlexeyBelov 7mo agoTrolls do as well. Very often if a comment is "bad", it comes from a relatively new account. Then it gets banned and a new account is created. Technically it's ban evasion, but dang doesn't really want to change anything at this point.
- AlexeyBelov 7mo agoIt does. One side: this group of people shouldn't even exist. The other side: no, let them exist actually.
- mlrtime 7mo agoThe other side sees you the same way, congrats on being enlightened.