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Truth is not an echo chamber, accepting other people who aren't hurting anyone just by existing isn't an echo chamber, kindness isn't an echo chamber.
I don't need to consider "alternate beliefs" that are just lies. There's this idea that if I'm not constantly reading stuff by straight up Nazis, that I won't understand that they are Nazis. Not having to read nonsense as possible facts is one of the really cool things about having critical thinking skills.
The idea that Mastodon is an echo chamber is crazy anyway. I am more informed here than I ever was on Twitter. People rarely just state opinions, they back them up, and as a frequent poster, I promise you that if you do post something without a link to back it up, someone will ask for one.
@RickiTarr do you have a link to a source that explain and support this ?
@RickiTarr @Vive_Levant I hate headlines like that because of people who think that the takeaway is in the headline.
Echo chamber aren’t a myth. They are very real and there are even a few on mastodon.
The myth is that they matter. The people who limit themselves to echo chambers wouldn’t change their views even with exposure to a wide range of opinions.
Echo chambers exist because of close minded people; people don’t close their minds because of the echo chambers.
@RickiTarr @Vive_Levant from which I quote “3. The percent of people who actually live in an echo chamber is probably in the single digits”.
As I said, the article doesn’t say that echo chambers are a myth. The myth, according to the article, is that echo chambers create the closed minds; the reality being that the closed minds create the echo chambers.