masterspace

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Half the US just voted in a climate change and vaccine denying, treasonous and traitorous, rapist.

Yeah, that makes sense that people will be shaken by the cruelness, and quite frankly, abject idiocy, of their peers.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lol if Black Ops 6 can run at 60fps on it, then any game can.

Gamers just bitch and whine about the S because they have inferiority complexes and it's an easy way to feel better than.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Software parents are such absolute horseshit.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 327 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So you're saying mash both a bunch of times to be super sure?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lol bruh, have some self reflection. People do it because it's easier. If you have the time to have all the hobbies that other people have and to roll your own home servers that's great, but that means you have an above average amount of free time. Otherwise, other people have hobbies that don't include server OS updates and choose to spend their time there and pay for someone else to manage their servers.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We're not talking about every possible aspect of life. We're talking about the choice we make in how we consume news. One way leads to more of a filter bubble, one way leads to less of one. Everything else you're saying is just besides the point justification for why you wanna choose the one that leads to more of a filter bubble.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 week ago

No, OPs point was that they can block people they disagree, with the person above in this thread brought up Nazis when people pointed out how toxic that behaviour is in creating filter bubbles.

I.e. they brought up an extreme example at one end of the spectrum to make a point when we were discussing the spectrum more broadly

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Then you are missing the point because there are tons of people who disagree with you who aren't Nazis. OP is talking about how it's great how you can only talk with people you agree with.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Even with newspapers and the like are filter bubbles possible. I am free to buy only the newspaper who writes the stories in the way I want to read them. There are left wing newspapers and right wing newspapers and stuff in between. And even with newspapers and broadcasts you are still free to only consume what you want to consume and block, by not buying or active ignoring, what you not want to see or hear. Things like cracker-barrel philosophy or Stammtischparolen where a thing long before the Internet.

Are you arguing that the filter bubble effect is the same for a newspaper and for a social media site?

Yes, the filter bubble effect is still possible to some extent with a traditional chronological news feed, but it's quite frankly absurd on it's face to claim that that is the same severity of filter bubble, when a site like Reddit / Lemmy operates by taking those chronological news feeds and filtering them further.

The Guardian might be a relatively true neutral newspaper (meaning it appears to lean left by mainstream standards), and yet articles it publishes that back up any remotely right wing / economically conservative points do not get posted here.

Echo chambers naturally arose in the past because information could not travel freely, that does not mean they are a good thing or something that we should be recreating and reinforcing on the internet now that it can.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Notice how all of those numbers are substantially larger or smaller, by many orders of magnitude, than a couple of hundred.

Are you intentionally trying to avoid understanding what I'm writing?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You are referring to literally everyone you disagree with as a Nazi. You are an example of someone who lives in a toxic filter bubble.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then you should pick a reputable paper like The Guardian and read a chronological RSS feed. Articles that don't support Lemmys preexisting point of view don't even get posted here.

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