Omg not .ml says half of them for no reason
I don’t block instances I disagree with, but I did get banned by two diametrically opposed instances for the same comment.
Good. You should. Rest your emotional capacity, in order to properly listen when talking with actual people, and stay able to make quality effort, to properly research the other side when you can, with a mind to empathy.
Don’t let waves of bad faith exhaustion-bait keep you tired, when you’re trying to connect with like-minded people. We all need rest and connection.
Like blocking that dummy that doesn’t use “th” or the other idiot who had a disclaimer on all their posts that they couldn’t be used for Ai.
What is the reasoning for insisting on ‘th’ avoidance? Does he think he’s ‘poisoning the scraped data’ or something along those lines?
I guess. I have no idea. They’re just a moron.
There’s no meeting in the middle with folks who are trying to make a white ethnostate.
I’ll debate with my friends about lots of things: is it worth adding a new tax? Is the needle exchange program appropriately measuring their numbers? Does it make more sense to build a homeless shelter next to the other one in the tenderloin to keep disadvantaged folks next to their peers or should we build it farther north so we balance people across care facilities.
These are the things we debate.
Things like, “do trans people deserve human rights?”, “are concentration camps okay?”, and, “are we cozy with state sanctioned extrajudicial murder?” are not up for debate. The answers are “yes”, “no”, and “no”, and if anyone disagrees with that fuck them. They are a waste of my time and emotional energy. They will never be convinced.
I’m triaging. My friends and family and community need my limited energy. They deserve it.
Things like […] “are concentration camps okay?”
And yet, you registered on .ml. But let me guess, China doesn’t do that. It’s not a concentration camp if it’s a Gulag, right?
No. It’s not okay when China does it either.
EDIT:
And yet, you registered on .ml.
Thank you for pointing out the issue with, I think, the ML instance? I don’t particularly like how it was done and have some critiques, but those can wait and this can be a good teaching opportunity for both of us.
If you’ll note the age of my account you may realize that Mastodon Fed didn’t exist when it was created. In fact, when I signed up as part of the great Reddit Exodus there weren’t many other functional instances. The other alternative I tried didn’t send me an account activation email. It would seem the ML is the only one that would have me at the time.
After reading your post I found myself scratching my head thinking, “Why is this person talking about China? I didn’t even mention China?” Then I thought, wait, is the lemmy dev an advocate for genocide or something? I don’t see any articles on that and it’s an open source project. Perhaps the ML instance is mainly hosted in China? But I’m not giving them money?
Finally, I found someone mention that the ML domain was “Marxism-Lenninism” and not “machine learning”. I haven’t confirmed this so don’t take my word as gospel.
Now the question is, “do I move instances?”
That’s a longer conversation.
Once upon a time when the internet was small and niche, this may have been true. Now, it’s a firehose of information that is constantly available in your pocket. It’s healthy to curate that space to reflect your interests in your precious little time on earth. If you want to pop your bubble so badly, go out and talk to people! Make real connections instead of falling for engagement bait online that only leaves you frustrated and isolated.
Communicating with people who you ideologically agree with is not an echo chamber.
Iron sharpens iron.
Shit does not sharpen iron.
I believe the technical term is “galvanizing your opinions” as a wise man once told me
This you? https://reddthat.com/post/65397779
UwU
God tier shitpost
I don’t think this is a shitpost. Also, the effect of ‘echo chambers’ is disputed in science. Some argue that encountering posts or people you heavily disagree with, from groups you already dislike, reinforces your negative oppinion of that group. They conclude that the ‘echo chamber effect’ is massively overestimated
I would like to see a peer reviewed study for that, cause I think that’s unfounded, especially since we can see the effects with our own eyes
Here’s one stating the opposite, and from only 3 years ago too!
Sure, if lemmy was 100% of your social sphere.
I mean, kind of. You don’t want a mandrake root as a house plant …
Fam, you should post this kind of thing to !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world I really miss that community.
Oooh never heard of it, sure I’ll check it out
You know what’s funny? I was on my alt and saw this post, here I’ve got a positive 28, on the alt it was a negative 29, didn’t realize the karma system literally reinforced echo chamber behaviour.
Probably due to how defederation works, wild.
