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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet despite the clear creation of echo chambers, which I think is inevitable given how freedom of association works so smoothly and easily online, the Fediverse forces them all to "live next to each other".

It's not an entirely separate service I need to go on if I want to see what all the Nazi kids are up to these days.

This forced adjacency and inability to create any blocks stronger than defederation (which is pretty weak, really, compared to what other services can do) is going to have overall beneficial effects in the long-run, I think. Though it'll certainly cause its fair share of headaches too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm actually happy to see the reduction in echo chambers for myself because it does 2 things:

  1. It reminds me that the people I think I disagree with have good points I need to remember, and
  2. It reminds me that the people I think I agree with have terrible points I need to remember.

For someone who thinks for themselves, seeing extremism in some cases actually makes you less extreme because you see it and realize you don't agree with it at all.