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ipaddr | 9 days ago

How can we complain that everyone is siloed and no one talks to each other and complian that their feed is full of ideas outside of the silo.

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r|9 days ago

What next? The intellectual dark web? I think we can have a free market of ideas or whatever you’re fetishising without it meaning that I can’t sit on the couch and open an app to see some family photos without it being intermingled with some loser saying that trans people should be hanged on the street.

And you know for a fact that I am not exaggerating. This is where the current political discourse is at.

Can I please have the freedom to do that without the lecture?

vasco|9 days ago

Your family photos should be on the Photos app and you'd have no problems.

cruffle_duffle|9 days ago

That sort of rage bait is literally targeted to rile up people sitting on the opposite side of the kind of people watching that other media site that rhymes with socks. It’s all fake bullshit algorithmically optimized to divide.

Everybody thinks their tribe is immune to this sort of stuff but it isn’t. It’s all the same nonsense packaged for different echo chambers.

At the end of the day, everybody is human. It isn’t us vs them, it’s just us.

fatherwavelet|9 days ago

The worst to me is the way people dehumanize other people who don't agree with them.

The other side politically doesn't just have different views, they are barely human knuckle draggers. Basically neanderthals, so who cares if they go extinct.

duskdozer|9 days ago

"don't agree with them" is carrying a lot of weight here, isn't it?

mlrtime|9 days ago

The other side sees you the same way, congrats on being enlightened.

flir|9 days ago

Do you think you should have full control over the web browser on the computer you own?

AnthonyMouse|9 days ago

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

Having the right to choose what you see doesn't mean you should choose to build yourself an ideological bubble.

garte|9 days ago

what the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...

harvey9|9 days ago

I want Facebook to be like the current top post on here: my family and friends social stuff. I can come to hn to get out of my silo.

flir|9 days ago

My wife uses the app, hence the "consistently block the assholes" approach. But if you're willing to stick to the website I can actually offer you this. Write a browser plugin that redirects you to "/?filter=all&sk=h_chr" every time you land on "/". That's what I use for myself.