Tabletop creators leave X for Bluesky in droves

Mannahnin said:
I agree that they want to maximize your time on and engagement with the platform, but the data I've seen isn't that they do this by giving you an echo chamber, unless you ONLY engage and interact with content you agree with.
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A lot of people only engage with what they like.
 

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Thomas Shey said:
When you have finite time, I think expecting most people to do otherwise is fundamentally unreasonable.
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I see your point; however, this could also mean that most people suffer from ignorance, bias, and being uninformed.

I am not saying this is true but I see echo chambers in a lot of folks.

I actively try to avoid them but modern technology and customs make them difficult to avoid.
 

Mannahnin said:
Some, but that's not the general behavioral trend. IME most of us have to exercise self-discipline to do so, to help curate our feeds better.

Of course, Musk has removed that option on his platform.
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I would not know. I do not use Twitter. I avoid it.

That said, I do not see much evidence of self-discipline from the majority of heavy social media users.
 

My youtube feed is full of geopolitics, classical history stuff and GenX music.

There's 1 chud video recommendation I think it's because I watched a Star Wars video.
 
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Belen said:
I can see the benefit. It does not mean that you have not created your own personal echo chamber though.

I follow creators and folks on YouTube. YouTube then tries to create an echo chamber for me. It is very clear that the algorithm starts trying to show me more content like what I have already seen. I find it annoying.

These platforms, TiKTok, YouTube, Twitter, BlueSky etc are all going to do the same thing to some extent in order to maximize your time on the platform.

Other than YouTube, I just do not get into the follow culture and if I see news, then I will usually search out different platforms to see how the story is framed from multiple perspectives. I like to see the various biases whenever possible.

It's not that I do not understand the benefits that folks find from these experiences. I do.

People do create echo chambers for themselves and I still think that a lot of people delude themselves into thinking that are not part of one.
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With something like TikTok or Youtube it just makes sense to feed you more of what it finds you watching, but Youtube's algorithm is incredibly bad. At least for me. It keeps feeding me AI stuff, that I actively block. For some reason it also sends me a bunch of foreign language videos, when none of the stuff that I actually watch is foreign language. Just bizarre.
 


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