Meanwhile I’m pounding down beers

Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn’t an echo chamber.

Facebook - Echo chamber, actively manipulated to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads

Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads

Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a “locals only” aesthetic

LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod vigorously to everything the CEO says in the “all-hands” meeting

Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties

YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you’ll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)

Twitter (I’ll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including “MechaHitler”

Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up

Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it’s decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)

Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber

Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes

Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber

TikTok - An algorithmically tweaked, purposefully addictive echo chamber that shows you what you want to see so you volunteer your money and your data

Shall I go on?

I don’t just allow “both sides” to come into my living room and have a debate with me about whether or not trans people should be able to exist in peace or whether or not minorities should be exterminated. I similarly don’t waste time “debating” them on social media or reading their posts. Tolerance of intolerant people just so we can “cover both sides” isn’t a high priority of mine on social media, and it’s also not available anywhere anyway.

This is true but I ultimately don’t care.

Is there any social media site that isn’t an echo chamber? They’re designed that way on purpose in most cases.

There are enough forums catering to idiots. I appreciate the better moderation, tech savviness, and lack of tolerance for right wing BS on Lemmy.

They’re the worst and I don’t even use them the first time to assemble things in most cases, but I too have a whole bag of them.

Dude is like the construction crew from the movie the money pit with his constant refrain of two weeks.

https://youtu.be/lJhHjACjJjA

Yep that’s part of why the Nazis called it national socialism. Socialism, but only for the Nazi nation (i.e. white, straight, non-jewish people).

Almost every company I’ve ever worked for was full of power craving idiots like you’re describing. Most of the meetings that immisserate my daily work life are between petty tyrants that spend 90% of their time building little fiefdoms and looking for a grand pat on the back for their meager accomplishments.

People got worse over the course of the pandemic and it appears they have no intention to go back to more reasonable public behavior ever.