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0 pointskrapp2y ago0 comments

I don't believe echo chambers are nefarious - there's no hidden agenda involved with them. That's just how recommendation algorithms work, and it's what most people want.

But if someone finds some code that suppresses recommendations from a specific political ideology across the board, that would be nefarious, IMO.

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thfuran2y ago

Echo chambers may not be nefarious, but they are insidious.

krappOP2y ago

They can be if they're involuntary and inescapable, but neither is the case for Twitter. It's designed around letting you curate your own feed, but it also constantly throws random stuff in through retweets and quote tweets - which is what people hate the most about the platform.

yazzku2y ago

The echo chamber in your first point does the suppression in the second.

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