If subscribing to one’s own interests is an ‘echo chamber’, then all of us are guilty. If you are going to immerse yourself in ‘diversity and understanding’ by dunking yourself headfirst into the totality of the human condition without any filters whatsoever…well, you get what you deserve, I guess.
You know, I think people have many different interests and reasons for why they use social media platforms. Some are just hobbyists and use it for those purposes and thus curate and control a feed that emphasises their interests. Is that bad?
No. But it’s bad if they insist and harass other people who don’t use the platform the same way they do, or deny/refuse to acknowledge other types of users and problems exist, just because they have curated it out of their experience.
It’s not any different than a white person claiming the cops never bother them, so clearly this BLM thing is totally made up nonsense and these silly black people should stop complaining about police profiling and brutality towards black people.
People generally, really really struggle, with the concept that other people are different than them. For whatever reason, they seem to view other people’s differences, and difference experiences and concerns, as THREATS to themselves, and respond with hostility, often under the ‘let me help you you ignorant fool’ guise.
I mean, i block those people frequently, but man they exist in abundance here. Far more so than in my most of my reddit experience, but similar to my reddit experience from 2020-2022 when my post about my cat sitting on my porch got me banned for inciting violence, because outdoor cats are all mass murders and I am also one if I let my cat on my porch.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
That’s the problem with all social media platforms. People self-select into their own little worlds, and think anyone outside of that world is ‘boxing at shadows’. Or they convince themselves that they are heroic warriors on a holy war against Microsoft, etc.
Personally, I enjoy the ability to go into other communities and see what is going on there. I prefer to investigate things myself, than rely on hearsay and dwell in ignorance and denial that thinks I don’t know about or experience don’t exist.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
Okay? I mean The Threadiverse isn’t necessarily the only place people on here expose themselves to.
You just complained that people complain about how others use the platform, and now you’re here right now lecturing on others if they choose to curate their feeds and only follow their subscribed communities.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Because their beef is acknowledging a larger reality they have self-selected out of, and apparently that upsets them very much that someone else acknowledges it.
It’s your business if you want to stick your head in the sand, proverbially. But you cross a line when you start attacking other people for not doing the same thing as you, or for them acknowledging.
I’ll give you a separate example. On another site I comment on, I told a story about an accident I witnessed where a man killed his dog. This was in context of a social media promotional video with people doing dangerous outdoor activist with dogs because it is ‘bad ass’.
Some people acknowledge my concerns… and about half the comments were personal attacks against me telling me how I was a horrible person for sharing such a horrible story and I should go kill myself because I clearly am an animal abuser if I acknowledge that arrogance and ignorance in the outdoors with your dog can lead to injury and death.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Is that something that is happening at scale on here? I’ve never seen people do this. I’ve seen users who point out to people complaining about the /all/ feed to curate their content, but that’s just advise - not complaining.
more or less. this is precisely why so many people thought Trump would not be elected and were shocked he got elected twice.
they were living in a bubble world totally ignorant of how the other half of their country was living. including most of the media. they also systematically deny the problems in this country that fueled the rise of the alt-right and the expansion of hate-group, again because they live in a cultural bubble where these problems don’t exist.
those of us who were paying attention to how other people live, think, and vote, were not at all surprised at his victories.
If subscribing to one’s own interests is an ‘echo chamber’, then all of us are guilty. If you are going to immerse yourself in ‘diversity and understanding’ by dunking yourself headfirst into the totality of the human condition without any filters whatsoever…well, you get what you deserve, I guess.
You’re standing on a beach with your back to an oncoming tsunami as if your pleasant view is going to last forever.
You know, I think people have many different interests and reasons for why they use social media platforms. Some are just hobbyists and use it for those purposes and thus curate and control a feed that emphasises their interests. Is that bad?
No. But it’s bad if they insist and harass other people who don’t use the platform the same way they do, or deny/refuse to acknowledge other types of users and problems exist, just because they have curated it out of their experience.
It’s not any different than a white person claiming the cops never bother them, so clearly this BLM thing is totally made up nonsense and these silly black people should stop complaining about police profiling and brutality towards black people.
People generally, really really struggle, with the concept that other people are different than them. For whatever reason, they seem to view other people’s differences, and difference experiences and concerns, as THREATS to themselves, and respond with hostility, often under the ‘let me help you you ignorant fool’ guise.
I mean, i block those people frequently, but man they exist in abundance here. Far more so than in my most of my reddit experience, but similar to my reddit experience from 2020-2022 when my post about my cat sitting on my porch got me banned for inciting violence, because outdoor cats are all mass murders and I am also one if I let my cat on my porch.
I don’t think this is happening though. I think you’re boxing at shadows.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
That’s the problem with all social media platforms. People self-select into their own little worlds, and think anyone outside of that world is ‘boxing at shadows’. Or they convince themselves that they are heroic warriors on a holy war against Microsoft, etc.
Personally, I enjoy the ability to go into other communities and see what is going on there. I prefer to investigate things myself, than rely on hearsay and dwell in ignorance and denial that thinks I don’t know about or experience don’t exist.
Okay? I mean The Threadiverse isn’t necessarily the only place people on here expose themselves to.
You just complained that people complain about how others use the platform, and now you’re here right now lecturing on others if they choose to curate their feeds and only follow their subscribed communities.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Because their beef is acknowledging a larger reality they have self-selected out of, and apparently that upsets them very much that someone else acknowledges it.
It’s your business if you want to stick your head in the sand, proverbially. But you cross a line when you start attacking other people for not doing the same thing as you, or for them acknowledging.
I’ll give you a separate example. On another site I comment on, I told a story about an accident I witnessed where a man killed his dog. This was in context of a social media promotional video with people doing dangerous outdoor activist with dogs because it is ‘bad ass’.
Some people acknowledge my concerns… and about half the comments were personal attacks against me telling me how I was a horrible person for sharing such a horrible story and I should go kill myself because I clearly am an animal abuser if I acknowledge that arrogance and ignorance in the outdoors with your dog can lead to injury and death.
Is that something that is happening at scale on here? I’ve never seen people do this. I’ve seen users who point out to people complaining about the /all/ feed to curate their content, but that’s just advise - not complaining.
more or less. this is precisely why so many people thought Trump would not be elected and were shocked he got elected twice.
they were living in a bubble world totally ignorant of how the other half of their country was living. including most of the media. they also systematically deny the problems in this country that fueled the rise of the alt-right and the expansion of hate-group, again because they live in a cultural bubble where these problems don’t exist.
those of us who were paying attention to how other people live, think, and vote, were not at all surprised at his victories.