I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 day ago

    This is true but I ultimately don’t care.

    Is there any social media site that isn’t an echo chamber? They’re designed that way on purpose in most cases.

    There are enough forums catering to idiots. I appreciate the better moderation, tech savviness, and lack of tolerance for right wing BS on Lemmy.

    • Fleur_@aussie.zoneOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      Me too. Personally I’ve had experiences where I’ll say “I filtered x instances because I don’t like them” and had people complain that I’m creating an echo chamber (for just myself I guess?). I wanted to poke fun at those people by saying Lemmy is already a tech literate echo chamber.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        3·
        21 hours ago

        Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn’t an echo chamber.

        Facebook - Echo chamber, actively manipulated to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads

        Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads

        Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a “locals only” aesthetic

        LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod vigorously to everything the CEO says in the “all-hands” meeting

        Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties

        YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you’ll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)

        Twitter (I’ll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including “MechaHitler”

        Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up

        Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it’s decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)

        Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber

        Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes

        Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber

        TikTok - An algorithmically tweaked, purposefully addictive echo chamber that shows you what you want to see so you volunteer your money and your data

        Shall I go on?

        I don’t just allow “both sides” to come into my living room and have a debate with me about whether or not trans people should be able to exist in peace or whether or not minorities should be exterminated. I similarly don’t waste time “debating” them on social media or reading their posts. Tolerance of intolerant people just so we can “cover both sides” isn’t a high priority of mine on social media, and it’s also not available anywhere anyway.