Building a People First Community, a Response to Mark Zuckerberg

[mdpm]

Organic systems fare better when decentralised, that much is true (bacteria are inarguably more successful than man), but the politicisation of media in any direction is dangerous. SMTP didn't try sell you on an ethos.

Social and content silos, our natural tendency to create filter bubbles, and adversarial machine learning 'curating' your experiences and thus effectively, your culture; this is the danger.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

Using language like this, and equating Gab with right wing/conservative folks is not going to help anyone. As such it's just another information bubble for people who think alike.

[rvcamo]

>implying that Facebook, Twitter, and indeed HN itself aren't information bubbles for people who think alike.

[tptacek]

At least it's an ethos.

[didibus]

"Human beings are by nature tribalistic."

I'd love too see the empirical evidence for this.

[grzm]

References from the Wikipedia article on tribalism would likely be a good starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

Group selection would be another area that might provide some more information on related arguments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection

[kneel]

You should check out the entire corpus of written history by homo sapiens.

Great empirical evidence in there