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FWIW, X is far less of an echo chamber than Bluesky, Truth Social or Reddit. They're simply doing this to boost engagement and break scrapers.

otherme123 12d ago
I quit Twitter because a lot of the people I followed also quit so the site lost relevance/interest, but mainly because those who stay were turning slowly but steadily into something the network was clearly pushing. The force pushing of Elon twits into my timeline was too obvious, and once noticed that I noticed other less obvious pushes and even more insidious, silencing people I was interested in reading but suddenly their twits no longer pop in my timeline. I needed to go to their profile to read their twits. In short, Twitter was actively pushing me into an echo chamber, even when my follows were diverse. Bluesky, Truth Social or Reddit are users that usually want to be in that echo chamber. At least bans are very notorious there, and not shadowbans/algorithm silencing while Elon says "I am a free speech absolutist".
mitxela 11d ago
> X is far less of an echo chamber [citation needed] - an echo chamber you agree with is still an echo chamber.
- olalonde 9d ago
  X: "Before Musk acquired it, Twitter’s users were more liberal; now it’s about even on X" https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-politics-of-a-platform-the-case-of-x/ https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-politics-of-a-plat... Bluesky: "8% of the links were to right-leaning websites" https://labhorizons.co.uk/2025/02/new-study-highlights-blueskys-political-leanings-and-rapid-user-growth/ https://labhorizons.co.uk/2025/02/new-study-highlights-blues... Reddit: "There is a strong Pro-Left/Anti-Right bias to the top 100 posts of Reddit with 112x more posts (99.1%) favoring the American Left Wing compared to the Right" https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/articles/reddits-american-political-left-wing-bias-a-study-of-the-top-100-posts-from-september-12-21-2024/ https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/articles/reddi... TruthSocial: do I really need to pull that up?

otherme123 12d ago

I quit Twitter because a lot of the people I followed also quit so the site lost relevance/interest, but mainly because those who stay were turning slowly but steadily into something the network was clearly pushing. The force pushing of Elon twits into my timeline was too obvious, and once noticed that I noticed other less obvious pushes and even more insidious, silencing people I was interested in reading but suddenly their twits no longer pop in my timeline. I needed to go to their profile to read their twits. In short, Twitter was actively pushing me into an echo chamber, even when my follows were diverse. Bluesky, Truth Social or Reddit are users that usually want to be in that echo chamber. At least bans are very notorious there, and not shadowbans/algorithm silencing while Elon says "I am a free speech absolutist".

mitxela 11d ago

> X is far less of an echo chamber [citation needed] - an echo chamber you agree with is still an echo chamber.

olalonde 9d ago
X: "Before Musk acquired it, Twitter’s users were more liberal; now it’s about even on X" https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-politics-of-a-platform-the-case-of-x/ https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-politics-of-a-plat... Bluesky: "8% of the links were to right-leaning websites" https://labhorizons.co.uk/2025/02/new-study-highlights-blueskys-political-leanings-and-rapid-user-growth/ https://labhorizons.co.uk/2025/02/new-study-highlights-blues... Reddit: "There is a strong Pro-Left/Anti-Right bias to the top 100 posts of Reddit with 112x more posts (99.1%) favoring the American Left Wing compared to the Right" https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/articles/reddits-american-political-left-wing-bias-a-study-of-the-top-100-posts-from-september-12-21-2024/ https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/articles/reddi... TruthSocial: do I really need to pull that up?